PinkFireFly
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- Posted: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:49:07 +0000
So today I grabbed a cannabis leaf from my backyard (my mom is growing some, it's legal in the Netherlands if you have a valid reason), and I stuck it on a black background with some needles to hold the leaf in place (these needles were later photoshopped out). Then I placed incense sticks under the leaf to crate the smokey effect.
I took like a 100 pictures to get the damn smoke in the picture. I've learned that smoke is best captured using a diffused flash, and that it's very bad to do this in a tiny little photostudio that makes the smoke fly in your eyes as you try to take the picture. Even so, out of a 100, I got one that was pretty decent. I've also learned to not use the velvet-like side of the black backdrop, as it contained a lot of ashes from the incense sticks, so they show up as 'noise' in the picture >_>
It's the first time I did something soo .. conceptual? Haha. Anyways, I posted this to get some comments and criticism on it.
I took like a 100 pictures to get the damn smoke in the picture. I've learned that smoke is best captured using a diffused flash, and that it's very bad to do this in a tiny little photostudio that makes the smoke fly in your eyes as you try to take the picture. Even so, out of a 100, I got one that was pretty decent. I've also learned to not use the velvet-like side of the black backdrop, as it contained a lot of ashes from the incense sticks, so they show up as 'noise' in the picture >_>
It's the first time I did something soo .. conceptual? Haha. Anyways, I posted this to get some comments and criticism on it.