Hi All
My first blog on my new website. I thought I would show you how I did the first splash image (pun intended) as a lift off for my blogs. Stay tuned folks, and I will show you interesting shoots, both studio and location.
Let’s get started
The brief for this mini digital video camera was mainly to show its waterproof status and other features, but let’s show you the water, because it’s the fun bit.
The key too this kind of shoot, and in everything I do, is to “Get it right in camera” which I say a lot because the more you can do that’s real, the better it looks in the final image. Its how I was taught, as you had too back in the day before Photoshop, and I still stand by it. Having said that there is a lot of Photoshop work done on these images, so go figure?
Back too the plot. As you can see I dropped, wobbled, poked, and swirled, the camera in this jug for a long time with lots of shots, to find the right combination of wave and bubbles. I then took interesting bits of water from different shots to achieve the final effect.
Lighting is my thing. Let me put my thing down, for all you kids out their…Moving on… This is an easy setup, one Bowen’s soft box overhead, and spotlight from the left to catch the water sparkle, with reflector opposite.
Oh I recorded the whole thing with a camera. The camera is often the last thing we commercial photographers stick in, after we have built the set, completed the lighting etc. As long as it has a good sensor, and it can do manual, it doesn’t matter what you have it’s what you do with it that counts… you may have heard that before!
Anyhow Photoshop time. So I took out the jug, and added more water, and I took bits of water and bubbles from different shots, I added background sky and trees and generally refined the image, with colour correction etc.
The camera needed it edges defining, and its logo put back on as obscured. I also added reflection of sky in the camera lens, and other goodies to make the final images. I always leave plenty of space, around an image, so designers can add text logos etc.
Job done. Well I also did all the cut-outs, and accessories, box shot, and other shots in use, but you get the picture. Hope you enjoyed my first blog, I will do another soon.
Stay safe Cheers Martin