During a cigarette break, some smoke went through, a shaft of light and inspired me to capture some images. Whilst reviewing them they had not come out as I thought. The light bleed and flare from shooting into light, gave grain and noise to the images. I then thought about how to develop them and try to get some pleasing images. After looking at smoke images on google and seeing how some of my peers had imaged smoke. After some research, I saw why and how to improve my images. most of the other photographic images had been shot with strobe and had no ambient light bleed. I knew I would get some bleed, but was just messing around during a break.

The break turned into a five day rabbit hole, due to an illness, that kept me in my room. However I have learnt a lot from this distraction. I have now got the basics of gradient filters and developing my images further in mind and can now start to see different paths to an end result, in how shooting the images fits into the workflow from conception to finished article, from an artistic view rather than a technical view. I am going to shoot some more smoke images, but set up a flashgun, but also carry on experimenting with the light bleed, to see if I can control how it comes out in the finished images, and what effect on the images this has, and also follow my peers in straight studio strobes in a blacked out room. I will be then able to compare the results and finishes and see how it affects the images.

How they were developed can be found here