Smoke and mirrors have long been the preserve of magicians, but one amateur photographer has taken advantage of the concept to produce these stunning images.
36-year-old Jay Payne, from Burnley in Lancashire, makes the extraordinary images using incense sticks, his camera and photoshop, all in his living room.
Jay says he darkens his living room and lights an incense stick to create the pictures, setting up his ordinary Digital SLR camera and using a manual flash.
He then mirrors the images on photoshop before adding the colours in to pick out the details of the picture better from the black background.
The pictures pick out images from the smoke from nowhere, with little manipulation.
Faces can be seen in the middle of the mirrored images that have been produced just by an effect that replicates the process of putting a mirror next to the smoke.
Pictured is ‘Mind Control’.
Credit: Jay Payne/newsteam
31/05/2011