Strad 
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Thanks for the comments, Jane, Dan, Tom, Ed, and John! Much appreciated. As to how I did it, that was pretty straightforward. The EXIF should be easily available but I'll post it if you want. I don't have much in the way of sophisticated lighting equipment so I had to use my good old three lamp tree with three 60 watt bulbs above and on the right while I used a small LED booklight on the left to illuminate the smoke. If you look carefully, you can see that there is smoke rising from both barrels although it is not as obvious from the one on the right. It clearly splits, though, into two streams - the one on the left being significantly more pronounced. I positioned it on a big stuffed toy with a black velvet covering and got my son to hold up the covering from behind. Since it is a 20 Gauge Coach Gun, it has two pull-back hammers - one for each barrel. Those are what are out of focus in the background. With PS, I enhanced the black to remove any contours of the velvet that were visible. Hope that helps. 
All the best,
Endre
Edited by Strad on Mar 05, 2006 at 11:42 PM GMT
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I did have to use the cable release, though. Where there's a will, there's a way. I think I'll let speculation accumulate for awhile before I reveal my deep, dark secrets.