For the set up I used two flashes, two umbrella softboxes, and a black background. I show the position of the umbrellas in the video below.
Day 75/365
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Neon Drops With Just a Few Props
I wanted to do some more splash photography so I went and picked up some clear balls from Michael's. I read on someone's blog about these specific ones that they sell there. I used a colorful plate with some water on the bottom, not too much, but enough to make a splash. I tried various angles and perspectives for composition and dropping the balls from different heights to get some different looks. I think I shot close to 300 pictures just playing around with various ideas. I found that dropping the clear balls from a higher perspective gives some good splash effects. This is something fun to try to break up the cycle of editing photos and gets your brain working artistically. I brought the image into photoshop and changed the color of the plate using the the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, a little sharpening and some darkening of the shadows and BAM! this is what you get. Like I said, I have a lot of crazy shots but this one is probably one of the best shots from the session.
For the set up I used two flashes, two umbrella softboxes, and a black background. I show the position of the umbrellas in the video below.
Day 75/365
For the set up I used two flashes, two umbrella softboxes, and a black background. I show the position of the umbrellas in the video below.
Day 75/365
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another thing you can play around with is different color backgrounds... you had a black background here... if you used a piece of green or blue [anything] cardstock, it'll give you a bunch of colorful effects! not sure if i've shown you this yet but you should check it out... maybe learn something new! http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-photograph-water-drops-with-one.html
ReplyDeleteYeah I think that's the same one you sent before, it's all good though. I had tried using different colored backgrounds but I was going for a cleaner look on this particular shot. I think I want to try food coloring next time, milk, something.
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