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Blue Smoke
Blue Smoke
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Challenge: Blue II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Ashburn, VA
Date: Jan 25, 2006
Date Uploaded: Jan 25, 2006

 Smoke photography 101.

Backlight on incense sticks against a black background. 2 lights positioned at 45 degrees behind and below the smoke. Some people like to use flashes offset from the camera, but I don't have a remote flash cable, so that's not an option for me.

Camera mounted on a tripod, manually focus on the smoke, shoot in shutter-priority mode at ISO 400 or higher to insure sharp smoke.

Color balance adjusted in Photoshop CS.

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 02/06/2006 10:43:35 PM
Nice blue smoke on the darker blue background.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 02/04/2006 07:00:00 PM
cool
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 02/03/2006 01:00:11 AM
I assume this was strobed and then tweaked with levels/curves to be blue? If not, let me know how this was done.
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