Glass of Water Strobist Shoot

For the Martin Bailey Photography August photo assignment, I took a shot of water pouring straight down into a wine glass lit from the sides. See how I took this shot in this short video.

See the final image on Flickr:
http://bit.ly/blJFmC

See my blog post about this shot including some shots that didn't make it.
http://bit.ly/d3s8X6

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• strobist
• photography
• glass
• water
• flash
• strobe
• softbox
• canon

[adityakapoor4]

How did you get the background to be such a even jet black? Was that photoshop work or simply because you had shut out all the other ambient light?

[ForrestTanaka]

@adityakapoor4 The background is just severely underexposed. The light in the room was low, but as you can see from the video, it was enough for me to walk around in. So I just made sure that the photo was completely black without the flash, then the flash just illuminates the subject. You have to be careful not to let the flash illuminate the rest of the room too, and the soft box and snoot help control that.

[pofrani]

would sparking water be any different?

[Houstontexxxas]

Great video, thanks. You seem like such a nice fella.....

[TheKevbrannan]

Another great video, need to try this myself.

[HibridOPT]

@naleac underexpose it.

[bperucco]

Awesome work



[johnnywhiu1]

real cool

[galvhin]

@naleac just do the narrow opening of your aperture. its about f8- f13

[galvhin]

@naleac just do the narrror opening of your aperture. its ayout f8- f13