I've seen examples of this here and at Pbase and wanted to give it a shot. I'm not happy with the lack of sharpness in the smoke. I will try again sometime...
Raw conversion, levels, rotate, crop, noise ninja, resize, sharpen, save for web. I predict a 5.7 for this challenge.
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Very interesting and good definition. As a possibility I would have considered placing the matches on a horizontal position, light them and blow them out. The rotate the image which would give the illusion of the wind sweeping across, that is, the smoke. Regardless, a very nice image. 7
Nice shot but don't see how it displays wind. The smoke seems to undisterburbed as it is going straight up. Movement one way or the other of the smoke would have worked better for the challenge.
The only thing undermining your title and intended impression that the flames did not withstand the wind is the smoke is rising straight up. Were there a breeze, one might expect the smoke to follow with it. The clarity and detail on the match heads make them quite intriguing and I like the composition.
A slight breeze to move the smoke could have sold this better IMO. As is, it's all tied to the title and doesn't illustrate wind directly. Nice job on exposing for the smoke, it has an interesting color cast to it near the top.
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