Chilli (Red)
25th Feb 2010 - Digital, Food, Fruit, Leeds, Studio, University, —
For the last university project, I envisaged a series of images like this, to illustrate the brief title of “Fruit and Veg.” Later imposed restrictions on cropping, and a realisation that extensive post production work would be required scrapped that concept and I went with something a bit more glassware oriented.
Not before I had bought a fish tank and shot a few images with it trying to capture the perfect orientation; the perfect bubbles; the perfect splash. It’s a matter of luck as to whether the object will fall correctly and the elements will slot into place.
Removing the glare from the flash reflecting from the hundreds of fruit particles (tank previously had lemon and orange halves dropped into it) took a bit of time, and there was a contrast reducing haze all over the images from juice that was forcibly expelled when the orange hit the water.
It can safely be said that the image above would not have met the ‘no photoshop’ restriction.
The fish tank is currently being utilised by Adam, acting as a water vessel for his slow motion ball-dropping videos. Check them out in all their 2,000 frame-per second goodness on his website.
Aidan said on Friday 26th February 2010 at 9:15pm —
Thanks Lucio! The lights were two radio triggered 580ex from the university equipment store on either side, set to a low power to freeze the action as best they could.
Getting a winning combination was tricky, but if I wanted to combine several images in Photoshop then it would have been much easier to ‘capture’ the look I was after.
Lucio Villa said on Friday 26th February 2010 at 12:07am —
This is really awesome. Sounds like its much more difficult to capture than it looks. How did you setup your lights?