My first try at photographing smoke. Many tries with and without the built in flash. The last couple of shots I decided that the flash needs to be off to capture the red glow you see.
Light sources: a window (which was a tad open, to give the smoke some cool movement) and another small lamp to the left as well. And the black background was just a piece of plain cotton tee fabric placed three feet away. Some black foamcore or a really good fabrid would've been a lot easier to work with.

PS work: Noise removal on the background, curves, sharpening, saturation, some spot editing. And I used the gradient fill tool for the first time for a photo. That's what gave the smoke it's color.

I may have overdone it, adding the color color and saturation? please let me know if I did. Thanks :)


exif:

File size: 2,505KB
Date/Time: 2005:07:31 19:18:01
Shutter speed: 1/6 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous: frame 1
ISO: 800
Lens: 100mm
Focal length: 100mm
AF mode: Manual focus
Image size: 3504 x 2336
Rotation: none
Image quality: Fine
White balance: Auto
Picture Effect: Normal
Sharpness level: 0
Gamma: Standard