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Hand inked 8mm film projected onto a few objects which were then acquired with a Nikon D50 and recompiled into video.

left: Blossfeldt Fractals (detail) - William Ngan & Right: Crystalpunk Automaton - Wilfried Hou Je Bek
Metaphorical brings to us a new work based on the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and generated using a species of algorithm similar to L-Systems. Check out the dynamically generated Blossfeldt Fractals here, you can also read about the [...]

Originally by paul from dataisnature.com on November 8, 2006, 10:43am

When you first see the swooping, curling, technicolor tendrils in Graham Jefferey’s work, you can’t help but wonder how he can manage to make ordinary gray smoke so beautiful.

Our pal Haje recently collaborated with Graham on a piece that delves into all the details: the lighting, the exposure, the best way to create the right kind of smoke, even the photoshop work needed to create the effect.

Unconvinced? Flip through Graham’s examples and you’ll be fired up to make your own!

A Smoke Photography How-to
www.photocritic.org/2007/artsmoke-photographing-smoke/

Link to this | Filed under Tutorials.

Originally by photojojo from Photojojo on January 29, 2007, 1:55am