Quiet air

We affixed each burning cigarette to a tripod against a black background. Then we shot close-ups with an ultra fast flash. The speed at which smoke rises posed are main difficulty. It only took a few milliseconds for us to see a shape that we wanted to capture, but by the time are brain commanded our thumb to shoot, the image was often gone. Also, since the smoke turned the studio air “gray,” he constantly had to stop shooting in order to ventilate. And then we had to wait until the air was totally “quiet”–which meant not moving–because that disturbed the smoke flow. The result are whirls and whorls that hint at ghostly faces, seashells, and shooting stars. What I like is an elegant figure–a pure picture of a simple turbulence.
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