smoke wallpaper #1

Candle just blown out.

Flash set to 6 pops/second at 1/128 power, handheld just below and behind, aimed towards the top of the candle. Triggered by hand when the shutter went off.

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  1. starmunki, Giuseppe Parisi, Steve4710, nef_cre8tor, and 82 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. starmunki (62 months ago | reply)

    robbie, that's rad!

  3. Giuseppe Parisi (62 months ago | reply)

    Masterful capture of this smoking candle

  4. Steve4710 (62 months ago | reply)

    Excellent technique.

  5. itravelwithholga [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)

    absolutely brilliant.... nice subject and well executed!

  6. larslarsen77 (62 months ago | reply)

    Technically, its not smoke, its vaporized wax. Which is why I like it :) Go team flammable vapors!

  7. dpd photo (62 months ago | reply)

    Very cool concept and nicely captured!

  8. Ms. Soccer_Roo (62 months ago | reply)

    very cool!!!! love the composition, great arc...

  9. Donna56455 (62 months ago | reply)

    brilliant! :-)

  10. .candy (62 months ago | reply)

    and it made the house smell like birthdays
    upload the other ones!

  11. johngledhill (62 months ago | reply)

    this is a really cool, i like the 6 seperate whisps of smoke

  12. mustafahacalaki (62 months ago | reply)

    I like this serie.

  13. debunix (62 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called It's not about you!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  14. Greg Adams Photography (62 months ago | reply)

    This is Very cool and well done!!!

    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!

  15. mattpa (62 months ago | reply)

    Excellent idea (seen in SP)

  16. pallapinco (54 months ago | reply)

    Pure art!

    If you want take a look to this photostream.. it is not so bad! I'd really appreciate it!


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  17. PirtePiraja (54 months ago | reply)

    Dear .robbie, I made a wallpaper of this for my laptop Ubuntu setup. I hope you don't mind this screenshot at Ubuntu Forums. I could use each one of your wonderful photos!

  18. .robbie (54 months ago | reply)

    I don't care at all, I'm just happy people like, and use!, my photos :)

  19. artesphoto (53 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Motion Capture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  20. RiesenFotos (50 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Hand Selected Photographs, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    One word only: Great!
    Hand Selected Photographs

  21. john.degenstein (49 months ago | reply)

    this photo really inspired me to take some pictures of my own...

    Here is one of the shots I created.

    www.jpgmag.com/photos/1625225

  22. john.degenstein (49 months ago | reply)

    thanks!

    I absolutely love how sharp the smoke and candle all are in this picture. I also like how your strobe seems to make the candle glow.

    Great control of your background as well.

  23. .robbie (49 months ago | reply)

    Thanks. The candle is back lit by the flash. The smoked moved very slowly in this photo (compare to the others from the same shoot) , which helped making it look sharper.

  24. weird melancholy (48 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called simply elegance, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    beautiful...so minimalistic!

  25. fouxdufafa (46 months ago | reply)

    This has to be the best execution of smoke I've seen!!

  26. anita bath (44 months ago | reply)

    awesome...

  27. - Sade - (41 months ago | reply)

    Simply excellent !!!
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  28. dagni_l (18 months ago | reply)

    This photo is a good sample in the flickr. It is awarded the flickr Award!

    flickrAward (post1 – award 5)
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