Another indoor photo project for distancing and

[flamin lib]

isolating. Smoke. Incense works best. Hang a dark background and set up a light to one side of the smoke column. Make sure to turn off the central air!



You'll have to experiment with exposure and in post you might play with color and hue for effect. This is a low keep rate project as it's impossible to predict what shapes and contortions the smoke will make. Set the camera to low speed burst and just let 'er rip. When you get a good one it's ethereal and mystical.

[mitch96]

1. Neat effect!! I had a house that had a glass block wall.. In the morning just after dawn....

The light would shine thru the block and dance on the opposite wall. The effects would only last for seconds and continually change.. I thought it would be a neat effect for a photo...
Your photo almost looks like a radiograph. Back in the day I use to mess around with radiographs of plants. I would take a flower and put it in a dilute solution of the radiographic contrast we used for angiograms. The plant would suck up all the contrast (dye) and outline the vessels in the plant when x-rayed.. Fun time and great gift for Valentines day!
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[flamin lib]

2. WOW!

I've got to find a way to simulate that! Or convince a radiologist to help me out. Now that radiology has all gone digital the cost shouldn't be that great except to amortize the cost of the equipment.

[mitch96]

3. Digital is the problem and the solution..

You don't need a radiologist, just a Radiologic Technologist to take the radiograph for you.. Most Rads are clueless in a x-ray room. Being digital it's locked into the Radiology dept's server. With all the HIPPA laws it's hard to "release" images to the outside world with out a bunch of paperwork. In the past it was just shoot, process and grab the film out of the processor and out the door you went. Also getting the right radiographic technique on the machine was sort of a hunt an peck maneuver. There isn't any real density to play with so standard factors would not work. If I remember correctly it was something less than a finger technique.. Very low amount of radiation. To get a sharp image you would have to dig into your radiographic physics bag of tricks. Right up my alley. I loved that stuff..
Also getting the radiographic contrast would be a problem.. Very expensive. I would use the discards from a angiogram. Perks of the job. You would place the flower stem in the dilute contrast and let it sit for a day or so to suck up the contrast. Again a S.W.A.G.with the timing..
Great fun. Over the years there were lots of "Tricks" we would do with radiographs to blow peoples minds... The phantom foot was always a fun trick.. Sorry about getting geeky with the physics..
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[flamin lib]

4. Thanks for the education and the somewhat disappointing information.

I'll see what I can dig up on simulating the effect with digital camera/post processing. You can get close to IR using post, so maybe there's something similar.

[mitch96]

5. Too bad I'm retired from Radiology.. It would be fun..

Maybe some how get something dense that the flower would take up and then backlite get the contrast between the "veins" and petals? It's all about the contrast between the structures, no?
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[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Wow, my dear flamin lib, that is just gorgeous!

Ya done good.

[alfredo]

7. I like the hint of color and detail