We had bubble and we had smoke, now let's have both :)

Comments & critiques welcome please.

Was going to colour the smoke during the post processing but thought I should leave it as it is on this one, may be on others coming I will give it a touch of colour

Cracking shot Amin maybe you should start printing and selling them, should be a good market for this sort of thing in London

Very, very nice Amin, I like it, colour is ok for me.
What I would like to see now, is the bubble in full shape, with smoke around it

Thanks Tel , thank you so much for your comment.

This was an effort after a whole bleeming day in the workshop and snapping over 400 shots and finally managed to tweak just about the right setup to then get the last 10 shots worth keeping .
I feel I can improve still really a lot, but I am so happy I managed to grasp the concept now and put it in practise . From here now I know I can do much more and feel confident I can work with both togther and come up with some newer ideas . Sky is the limit I think now .

The fact that I managed to get these ones in very high resolution leave me really happy now

Like you said I would love to look around for a market to place these images. Not sure how still but would love to get some tips

A couple more coming, I think the next ones are nicer though

Keep shooting 400 shots a day you will have to tap up(ask) the Mrs Amin for some money for a K-7

hmm, I better get some portraits done for her so that she doesnt complain when I book my K7 lol
Or should I get the Canon 50D , you seem happy with it Tel

K-7 or Canon 50D that's for you to decidebut yes very happy.

Hi Piotro,
you mean like this?

yes, nice one Amin, full bubble, but the previous one was better and what is this white thingy on the bottom of it?.
More please and more smoke around the bubble .

surely this is not what you meant, or is it Piotro?
I see you are enjoying taking the mickey out of me huh? lol, me and my poor bubbles lol.
Alright, here they come more, Piotro asks for more smoke, and smoke it is with bubbles. I am getting high arleady with the smoke, how about you? lol

Pah, amateurish, we want smoke INSIDE the bubbles!


Seriously though Amin, bloody impressed!

Danny, trust me, smoke inside the bubbles is the easiest to do.
Just blow smoke into the bubble instead of air.
Here is what you do:

Get one of those plastic drinks bottle, slightly smaller than lucozade for example. The where the screw cover is you open a tiny hole with a diameter enough to push a straw through it. Use bluetac to seal the area around it so its tightly sealed. Screw in the top of the bottle, so you end up with a lucozade bottle with the cover with a straw sticking through it.
now next stage, cut a small hole on the side of the bottle, meaning pierce a hole. Best way to do it is light an incense and while its burning push it through the bottle, so it will melt just enough size hole to pierce in. That will be from where you will light an incense stick and push it through there and keep bluetac next to you to use it when you insert the burning incense.

Next open the bottom of the bottle, a large enough hole to let normal air go through also otherwise the incense will go off due to lack of oxygen.
And you are ready to go. Insert the straw into the soap bubble solution, then push the burning incense through the side hole and immediately seal it with bluetac, then start blowing through the bottom of the bottle, the bubble formed will be filled with smoke.

that's it

Enjoy and let me know how you get along with it

Or the unhealthy approach

Light fag, take a drag, blow a bubble!

Don't think I would have your patience or persistence, but the results are impressive!

Thanks Danny, that's very kind of you to say that.

I am all stoned with incense smoke lol

I think we all had enough of smoke for one day, dont you think so?
Let's end with a bubble and coloured smoke , and then we can all be stoned in colour lol

Colour applied to smoke during post processing.