My first attempt at glass photography, with some blue liquid thrown in just for fun.
#2 On Flickr Explore!!!!! Thank you so much everyone, I really appreciate it!!!!
Technique:
For the glass, I used the basic "Light Field" Technique that
can be found in the amazing photography book "Light Science and
Magic". The idea is to basically create a bright white glass
image while emphasizing the dark edges for a nice contrasty photo. To
begin with, I simply placed a normal white sheet of photo paper behind
the glass and used a flash to light it up from below. Next, to get
the dark edges, I used a much larger piece of black poster board right
behind white paper. I then used my canon 40d with 70-200mm f/4 on
tripod to frame the photo so the entire white piece of paper filled
the frame, but the black poster board was not in the frame at all. The
white sheet creates the light background, while the black is reflected
in the edges of the glass to create the dark silhouette. Very simple
technique, and after this first attempt I can verify that it
definitely works!
Once the glass was setup as described, I simply grabbed a bottle of Pink Lemonade, poured it into the glass from above, and used a shutter release to time the shot. It just so happens that this was the first shot I took with this technique. Sometimes you just get lucky =D
Materials Used:
1) 25 cent Wine Glass I got at a garage sale
2) Standard white sheet of matte photo paper
3) Black poster board
4) Canon 580ex II
5) Cybersync Flash Triggers
6) Canon 40D
7) 70-200mm F/4 IS
8) Tripod
9) Shutter release (to time better time the shot while I drop the
liquid in)
10) Pink Lemonade
11) Photoshop (to turn that pink lemonade blue ; )
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oriana.italy 32 months ago | reply
Absolute BLUE
Invited Only
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Mr.Enjoy 26 months ago | reply
Fantastic!!!
4inthehouse 26 months ago | reply
Very fun shot.
Bill Gracey 6 months ago | reply
Thanks for your lucid explanation. I, too, am studying the wonderful book, and am having fun trying to apply the techniques.