Mermaid

Mermaid

I tried smoke art again last night, and this time it worked really well, thanks to the good advice from my friends Shelly Hiebert and Vikram Franklin . This time, used a black background in a very dark room at night, and held a halogen desk lamp very close to the smoke, but only on one side. It worked!

It is amazing how many shapes we can see in the smoke, depending on the way we look at it, and how we choose to colour it.

After inverting it, I flipped this image vertically (upside down), and I saw a mermaid right away. To me, she seems to be riding on the back of a giant frog.

I played a bit with filters to give some texture to the tail, without entirely losing the smoky effect.

Focal length 30mm
ISO-100
Aperture f/5,6
Shutter 1/50 sec.

Shot in manual mode and manual focus
Nikon D60
AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR

Featured in the group High Key on March 18, 2009

Finished in 3rd position of Top Ten in the Shapes in Smoke and Fog challenge of the Shapes & Patterns group on June 9, 2009

Mermaid belongs to the following groups:

! 100% !, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Experimental, High Key, Images & Ideas, Live, Love, Dream: , Lost in Space [75% Negative Space], Mysteries of the Common, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Safe Haven, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technical Photography and the love of Eerie and enchanting artwork Available for sale as

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