love it. can't wait to hear more details on the process

Is this another smoke photo? Those are cool. And this is cool, however you did it. It would make a great computer wallpaper (especially for a Mac)!

Lovely image. Tell us a bit more please!

Hi djn, Is this smoke? How do you make this?

This is a very exciting pic, and will be looking forward to more details.

Wow, nice capture.
If that's smoke... real nice PP on that one to make it look more like a solid. Did you overlay a find edge layer or something? Pretty cool dude!
BTW, nice compositional shape.
I'm also looking forward to more information.

*cough* invert *cough*

:D Sorry DJN, really great shape you got here. It can be painstaking getting a good one.

Very intriguing; makes me think of blown glass.

Nice photo. Hope you can share some technical aspects of the shot!

Ooooo, do tell! Can't wait to read more. You're always blowing my mind with these fab smoke shots, so really lookin' forward to it.

This is interesting, because it was back when you posted all the smoke pictures when I first heard of Chromasia. Someone had blogged about how cool they were and I've been a constant visitor since.

I like the interlocking shapes in this one.

This is one of your best smoke images to date Dave. Wonderful blown class effect.

I am just going to take a stab at it Dave, you took this smoke shot against a black background, inverted the tone so you have that solid white bg and then used maybe a few filters/masks in order to achieve this amazing greenish hue. It does look like blown glass and the way you caught the smoke **if it is smoke anyway** is absolutely awesome! Nice shot for the day :-)

this is beautiful! it looks like glass...

i love it .... whatever it is ! blown glass ? smoke ??

Amazing what you can do with those roll-ups!

i love it .... whatever it is ! blown glass ? smoke ??

Apart from the beauty of the shape and the colors, I love the fact that the smoke has got a sheen to it, so I'm guessing that you've added a pretty heavy curves adjustment on there, aswell as inverting the image.
did you use an incence stick to produce the smoke?

It looks like something "alive" is within. :-)

Wow.. I could look at this for hours.

Gorgeous. I can't ever get the focus exactly right on the smoke photos, so they get a little soft. This one make me want to have another go at it.

Somebody said inverted already, and I thought that's what it was, but it's defiitely not a straight invert cos when you invert it back, the smoke looks too purple. So I think ther's (one step) more to it than that......

I was thinking ink or food colouring dripped into water...

I remember you posted some links to smoke tutorials last time you posted these sort of shots. I've never given it a go, but I'm keen to try. I think I shall seek out some tutorials and give it a go.

Hi David. It reminds me of 2 other smoke shots you posted some while ago. The post-process on this one is even better and I really like the colour and reflections you gave it. But I think I prefered the shape of the pink one better (for those wanting to see, have a look at the thumbs page, you'll find it).
Tell us how you managed to focus on the smoke. did you take hundreds of shots to get this one right? I know it's hard cause I've tried it myself: here
Really not an easy thing to do ...
Thank for keeping up the good quality.

Smoke inverted. Always works for me. I like the crisp finish.

Man, this is incredible! I for one am looking forward to hearing more abot this one. Great work

Great image....im waiting for process.

That's great. Looking forward to the details, I'd like to have a go at this :)

I've always loved photographs that move into the realm of abstract art. These smoke forms are quite interesting. I'd be quite interested in knowing your smoke source. One of my favorite abstract shots here.

Fabulous image - I guess the clue is in the reference to smoke but the details of how you did it will be very interesting.

Ah, ...and that is what you call not perfect in your introduction? Great abstract!

Impressive picture! For me that's rather perfect. Would love to get more details on the history and postprocessing of that shot...

i do not even what to know how it's done, i just want to enjoy it, love it

This is fantastic... a beautiful visual journey that leaves something to the imagination.

mmm.. l really like this one.. it looks like a glass sculpture

amazing!

Nice. I really like this.

you say it's not perfect but it looks quite beautiful without having seen all your other shots!
love the fluidity and softness of the lines.

This is my favourite of the "movement of light" shots. It's so organic, reminds me of an Art Noveau styled flower, or an instrument like a trumpet. It's free flowing yet in stasis. Wonderful.

This one is much better than the other ones you recently posted...I love the colours, and this actually looks like a smoke shot, whereas the others are way too processed for my taste.

While you're totally free to do whatever you want on your site, I think as far as doing a tutorial for this, or giving guidance, you might want to let people know that what they're seeing here isn't even remotely what they'll get unless they very heavily process. Just makes me sad that some people might think they failed at the process of experimenting with smoke, when they likely didn't.

this is really beautiful!!! I loved the earlier smoke shots that you did some months ago and was wondering if you would post any more. This really reminds me of blown glass - so fluid and moldable.

perfection just got a form.