Michael DeRose said:
. . . if i ever post anything here that sucks, please please someone tell me it does.
Well, that one doesn't suck. You have foreground detail, mid-ground detail, and your horizon isn't dead-center in the frame.
where there’s smoke there’s forum fire
Thanks Elvish. I like the interior shot...that is something I haven't really done much of.
Very interresting tcole, looks as if the building is taking a walk.
I love the porch screen diffraction effect Aleks (I'm assuming that's what you're shooting through). When you start to get into even finer materials, stuff starts to get weird. I was shooting some equipment for work, got bored, and took a picture through a piece of wire sieve cloth @ 200 openings/inch. PP on this was pretty heavy because of light loss through the cloth.

AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Shot my first portraits this weekend. This is my daughter with 6 weeks to go before giving me another grandchild. I've got a lot to learn about shooting portraits but I enjoyed doing it, which I wasn't sure if I would.
Thanks. That barn didn't look like it could take too many more windy days.
@Pierre, what lens did you use?
I took some more smoke photographs this weekend. When i went to review, I was shocked to see this one in the group. It really looks like there is a face in the smoke. I did only noise reduction(i had terrible light, 1600 iso+) and cropped.
Michael DeRose said:
I took some more smoke photographs this weekend. When i went to review, I was shocked to see this one in the group. It really looks like there is a face in the smoke. I did only noise reduction(i had terrible light, 1600 iso+) and cropped.
Another way of photographing smoke is to do it in a dark room with the incense against a black background, set the camera to bulb/long exposure and fire the flash remotely (e.g. using the trigger button on the flash).
I've found that this way you're able to achieve complex photos with low ISO :) These are some that I've taken:

I think I can see the face in your photo. Does it look like a plague doctor...one with a long nose? lol. I like how yours has this focused light in the middle...nice :)
And sorry about the 3 photos in the 1 post! Don't have a place to properly show them :S
Florida Panthers Ice Dancers (the hockey team cheerleaders) : o
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 was the only lens I had with me that day. Was a bit nervous and forgot to increase the aperture to get rid of background.
Its more like a Pablo Picasso face. It looks like two eyes to the left and then a smile a bit below and to the right of the eyes. thanks for the tips as well!

On this one, I was trying to capture the sun taking a bite at the building.
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