IT'S SIMPLY SMOKE AND DIGITAL MIRRORS

Well this is what I did on the weekend. I bought some incense at the local market, draped a black shirt over our new iMac, set my camera on the tripod and put new batteries in my new flash. I then set off closing every door and window to make our flat as dark as possible so I could start taking pictures of smoke. I know, I know, as my good friend Lisa has already pointed out, I am a photographic GEEK! Check out what some copying and flipping and rotation in Photoshop can end up producing.

CLICK on each picture to see a larger copy of it.

THE PROCESS

Okay, the following shots is the procedure I followed to make the final image. All images above were made in a similar fashion.

I first started with one single shot of a stream of smoke coming from some incense.

I then copied that image and flipped it horizontally and merged the images.

I took that image and flipped it vertically and merged those images.

I then copied that image and rotated in 90 degrees and merged them

Then copied and rotated 45 degrees and merged

Then copied and rotated 22.5 degrees and merged

then copied and rotated 11.25 degrees and merged

Then copied and rotated 5.625 degrees and merged and then...

TAH - DAH

What do YOU see in these images?

Tell me what you think.

RUBBISH ?

COOL ?

INDIFFERENT ?

? ? ?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Dunk,

I think I need to see a therapist... I keep seeing vaginas and ovaries ! Awkward?!

Love T

Anonymous said...

Love the last post, as I was about to ebarrassingly admit that I saw a uterus in at least 2 shots. Honestly impressive though! Clears up that nerd garble you were spouting yesterday ;)
Cheers to you both! Lisa

Anonymous said...

Hey Duncan, I think you might have a little "too" much time on your hands, haha.

Cool stuff, though. Sonia said she saw a dissected frog in there...weird.

Stu

Anonymous said...

Good thing I KNOW you're not a druggie! Impressive imagination. Proud to call you my kid.

Anonymous said...

Very imaginative. I can see why my brother asked for some framed for Christmas. Must say I have to agree with T though.
Mike Lawrence's Sister.

Anonymous said...

Some very interesting designs. Neat, if you can do it. Should put them on DPChallenge.

Harry

Pascal Sauvé said...

Nice work - very creative techniques !

wing hin said...

WOW MISTER DUNCAN! I LOVE THE SMOKE!!!!!