Digipak Photographs

I had the idea of taking photographs of smoke for one of my inside panels in my digipak, and so I sat in my room for about 4 hours taking photographs of smoke. I had to set it up really carefully and use black card and the flash in a specific ways to make sure it looked effective, and then I had to crop them so that I got the right parts to look good. I then had to use photoshop to change the levels and colour balance to experiment and make sure the smoke was very light and the background was very dark so that there was a contrast and the smoke stood out.

 

Here are the results.

 

 

 

And these are the original photographs. I had to crop most of the photograph out and only keep the bits at the top because when photographing the smoke I had to half cover the flash so that it only made the smoke lighter and not the background, and because I didn't have the right equipment it was difficult, so it only worked with the top halves of the photographs.