Smoke

Hooray, it's Monday. So, the site went live last week and I'd like to thank everyone who came and checked it out and also a big thank you to everyone who messaged me to give feedback, it's always much appreciated. I'm very happy that my site is now live so I can share these posts with you every week, and I'm very excited about all of the things to come.

This week has been a bit rocky in my personal life so this blog post is a bit last minute and brief, but I hope you enjoy these images nonetheless.

At the beginning of August, to go over content for an upcoming workshop, me and Dave Edkins experimented with the smoke machine and coloured gels at ARB Studio. These are some of the images from Dave that I have had a play around with:

Colour Edits:

These are the edits that I preferred in colour. I love how different all three images ended up, even though they are all from the same set. I toned down the blue from the gel in the first one, which gave the whole image a darker feel. The second image, I made quite contrasty and lightened up the blue. The wider shot on this one I like too, as the smoke surrounds me. In the final one, I decided to leave the studio light in the background (I actually really love images with studio lights in for some reason!)

Colour v Black and White 1:

Here is an image with a colour edit and a black and white edit that I couldn't choose between. I always find this so difficult to choose one because simply changing an image into black and white changes it so much! Let me know using the poll below which is your favourite.

Which edit do you prefer?

• Colour
• Black and White

Colour v Black and White 2:

Here's another black and white versus colour. I loved this image when I was editing because I really like my expression on it. The black and white version here feels a lot more glamorous and timeless compared to the colour one, which feels more modern to me. Let me know using the poll below which is your favourite.

Which edit do you prefer?

• Colour
• Black and White

Playing with Colour:

I quite enjoyed editing these and messing around with the colour balance to get some more abstract feeling colours. My intention with these was that they would be displayed together, kind of like Andy Warhol prints!

Black and White:

And finally, some purely black and white edits. In the first image, you can see a lot more of the smoke which I edited to be quite light compared to the second image where I went for a closer crop and a darker background. Both of these were stronger in black and white for me.

So which image is your favourite from this post, and what do you think of these edits over all? Should me and Dave do another smoke and gels workshop?! Drop a comment :)

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I hope you enjoyed looking at my images, and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Misuzu <3