Liquids - Pedro Moura Pinheiro
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Taken with a Canon EOS 350D with a Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 on a tripod, with a flash emitter ST-E2 commanding two Canon Speedlites, a 420EX and a 550EX, using high speed sync. Just a bowl of water, using one of my daughter’s bath squeeze toys to drip water on the bowl. The color red is due to the wooden table top. It took me 148 pictures to get this one!
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Sony DSC-F707 on a tripod, 30″ exposure in the dark having previously fixed the focus. Bathroom faucet with a steady stream, the light is provided by waving up and down my cell phone screen sideways towards the stream. The color blue is the (accidental but pretty) result of having forgotten to change the white balance.
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Sony DSC-F707 on a tripod, fixed focus exposure with the camera’s flash filtered/redirected with a sheet of paper, of a water spray.
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Sony DSC-F707 on a tripod, auto-focus exposure with the camera’s flash redirected with a sheet of paper to hit just the top of the wooden honey dispenser and the back wall. Thanks to my Mom for holding the implements!
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This week’s assignment gave me lots of ideas, although the ones that came out better were not the ones born out of a lot of reflection, but more of a “spur of the moment” kind of things.
My comments:
1. Very cool! I know how hard it is to get this kind of shot cause I’ve tried them myself and ran out of patience…
2. I don’t like this picture so much, I think it is missing impact and ‘plot’, it seems like it’s not quite there, although that depends on the goal of the photographer so it’s quite a personal thing and not an objective analysis to make. But the ‘how it was made’ sounds pretty cool…
3. Great pattern effect! And you know how I like patterns….
4. This is the nicest picture in the series. It’s a very dense liquid but nonetheless the picture is superb! Nice colors, great sharpness, especially on the bottle and the completely neutral background makes the subject stand out. The only thing I could criticize from a perfectionist’s point of view would be the distractive element on top of the table on the far right…. But a SUPERB picture nonetheless.
Cheers mate!
MCA said this on June 3rd, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Pedro, I sure would like to know how did you did it on the honey one, because the flash on that camera is a build in right ?
I love it.
jrechena said this on June 5th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Rechena,
I used a sheet of paper parallel to the ground just under the built-in flash, lowering it just enough that the light would only hit the wall behind and the top of the honey, leaving the foreground in shadow. You also must be careful to make sure the sheet of paper is not visible in the photograph.
ppinheiro said this on June 5th, 2007 at 4:14 pm