photoshop sillyness. Montreal's ban on smoking in public places will go into effect soon. eek.
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Oliver Lavery
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Oliver Lavery 87 months ago | reply
@OiJimmy - How the color was done? I just painted it on in photoshop. It's sort of a pun. An abstracted no-smoking sign (look for a minute, it clicks...)
How the photo was done? Remote flash and a lot of trial and error.
tomato umlaut 87 months ago | reply
I like the complicated pattern. Didn't see the sign until I read your remark. How should I rate it, though? As a painting it is interesting. As a photo, I like the sharp focus on the swirls.
From the MiRea's Realm Group, you are given a 5.5/7 ranking.
A question I asked elsewhere in this group. At what point in the photoshopping would you stop calling an image a photo and begin to call it a digital painting?
Oliver Lavery 87 months ago | reply
A good question that is. Myself I think this crosses the line, I stuck it on flickr a as a joke for the locals. But then it started to get favs out of nowhere. It's a tricky question; there's no black or white, it's all gray area.
Bright Like Neon 87 months ago | reply
cool
Nuno Leitao 87 months ago | reply
Wonderful. I like the idea and you manage to capture quite a lot of detail in the smoke. It was probably not particularly easy to achieve the effect, and you managed it while retaining sharpness.
The downer for me is that the picture is a lot busier to the left, leaving a bit of a vacuum in the right hand side.
From the MiRea's Realm Group, you are given a 6/7 ranking.
ChunukBair 87 months ago | reply
Great exposure shot, I guess with the amount of smoke this was a multi-second piece? I am guessing the colouring is due to post picture editing, but it adds a lot to the pic.
Great picture.
From the MiRea's Realm Group, you are given a 5/7 ranking.
MiRea 87 months ago | reply
Very eerie effect, composition is balanced, kinda has a jumbled pattern look. Not quite out of the park, but definitely worth a look or two.
From the MiRea's Realm Group, you are given a 5/7 ranking.
Guillaume (www.gcpic.com) 87 months ago | reply
From the MiRea's Realm Group, you are given a 6/7 ranking.
very cool!
oybay© 87 months ago | reply
This, I love! Great color and lighting.
From the MiRea's Realm Group, you are given a 7/7 ranking.
JuanJ 87 months ago | reply
Congratulations!
Ditching the highest and lowest score you get a total of 28.5 out of 35 in the MiRea's Realm Group.
You are invited to post your pic in MiRea's Realm Upper Chamber
Michelle Miramontes 87 months ago | reply
wow
Bukutgirl 87 months ago | reply
(Hi, I've chosen your photo for the competition of the week at Scientist Photographers group, you can follow the scoring in the discussion section of our group! Good Luck!)
jamica2005 [deleted] 87 months ago | reply
It's a long time since 'smoke'-photos were a hype on Flickr... this is a nice one!
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... Arjun 87 months ago | reply
Wow!
MJ Mac [deleted] 87 months ago | reply
Ha ha - the ban is in force in Scotland now too :-(
Thankfully I'm not there anymore :-)
Great shot - and having tried this myself, wasted a pack and got nowhere, I know how difficult this really is.
The Irish Samurai 87 months ago | reply
Great shot.
MerlinsMan 86 months ago | reply
Love it!
chhattisgarh 86 months ago | reply
gr8 picture.we are using it with your permission in an anti-smoking campaign in an indian newspaper. other photographers can also contribute suitable images to the cause.
flickelly 74 months ago | reply
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Roscoul 29 months ago | reply
i hate this crazy ban... What can we do ? All smokers should smoke only electronic cigarette in public places... would be lovely to see the officials attitude on that.