This shot is bitter sweet for me. I was working with some new ideas on how to advance my smoke art. This smoke wheel was the basis for one of those ideas. Fortunately I had backed up the file after I quit for the night. Today I was working for several hours and Photoshop gave up the ghost and "poof" it was all gone.
At work my protools is on auto back up and it is fairly transparent. With Photoshop once the files reach around 30 gigs back ups that take over 2.5 hours are the norm, so I fly by the seat of my pants and backup when I take a break or quit for the night.
Since my attention span is limited and organizational skills leave a lot to be desired, I rarely been able to recreate the same work twice because of all the variables.
I am bitter about losing the project but sweet on having saved this at it's first stage.
This is one smoke plume from an incense stick mirrored and copied. Hue, saturation, vibrance boosted and adjusted.
Shot was taken with a Nikkor 200-500mm lens from one end of my living room.

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Make:	SONY
Model:	ILCE-9
Exposure:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture:	f/22.0
ISO Speed:	3200
Focal Length:	350 mm
Lens:	200-500mm F5.6-5.6