Fun little project but a tad stinky. The smoke was from some incense. The stuff creates good smoke but my basement stunk to high heaven afterwards. Basically I waited until the air was still then put the spoon in the smoke which then accumulated. The trick to the illusion of the pouring? I rotated the shot.
Editing? It felt like it was a lot but really wasn't that bad. In Light Room 2 I rotated the image, cropped and then adjusted levels. Adjusted clarity and vibrance. Desaturated the red, orange, and yellow channels. Did a bit of noise reduction then exported to JPG.
Post-challenge: I seem to recall saying that my shot was unique. Apparently not since there was 3 other spoon shots in this challenge. I'm still happy enough with how it turned out.
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