Author Topic: What light setup for water splash images? (Read 8011 times)

Peter · « **on:** January 25, 2008, 03:34 »

Hi! What light setup would you recommend for images like this:

Do I need aaquarium? And how to position lights?

ale1969 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2008, 06:30 »

I found out this link some time ago with a detailed setup for shots like this. They don't seem so easy to shot, main problem is the sync with the strobes as you need very fast times and so much light.

http://www.foodportfolio.com/blog/food_photography/Food_splash.html

Peter · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2008, 07:21 »

tnx for the link

stokfoto · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2008, 07:36 »

Quote from: ale1969 on January 25, 2008, 06:30

They don't seem so easy to shot,

Totally agree,I gave it a try a few days ago with no success.,you certainly need patience as mentioned synchronizing is the most difficult part and I guess plenty of of luck involves and I must say it was very time consuming as well.

please let us know of the result if you try it
good luck

Peter · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2008, 15:05 »

nope.... I realised I need strobes, or flashes. I only have one speedlite flash and warm lightning. I'll skip this.... hehe

DanP68 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2008, 15:57 »

I tried this myself a few days ago, but I too realized I do not have the required lighting to make it work. One thought was to shoot outside in a softbox on a bright sunny day, and I may give that a go once it warms up.

I haven't given up. But even with the right lighting, it is obviously a difficult shot to pull off and will require many takes.

RT · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2008, 16:21 »

Hi,
I've done a few shots like this, the way I did it was to use an aquarium (obviously), strobes, reflectors and a Canon speedlite with off camera shoe cord, the biggest problem is getting the strobes to sync at the right speed, in a nutshell they don't! hence using the Speedlite and off camera cord, the background is a softbox behind the fish tank, then it's just a case of dropping the fruit in and trying to press the button on a remote cord at the right time, it's trial and error a lot of the time.

To be totally honest they don't sell that well, and not all the sites take them, I've got a few on SS and the other micros but only the one at iS, I also did some shots of just water splashing which do sell very well.

Even though they don't sell that well I do intend to do some more in the future as it was quite good fun to do.

Here's the one on iS:

And here's another one that I've merged together (off course iS wouldn't take it!!)

ale1969 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2008, 18:30 »

If you're doing them in a dark studio set I think you can put the camera on pretty long exposition and then you "just" have to manually sync the strobes with the falling fruit. Pretty the same tecnique of multiple expositions used for "cloner" images when you capture different images with moving people in a static set illuminated by strobes and then merge them into PS.

Stu99 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2008, 18:41 »

Throwing water at fruit is an easier option than dunking in a tank (especially if you dont have a tank). Basically you dont have to worry about timing since the fruit is static and the water is being poured. But, you do get better results using a strobe (I like Alien Bees).

The below example is one of a series I did two weeks ago, they are beginning to sell ok. :-)

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