PhotoWalk at the Riverwalk

  This past Sunday I lead a photo walk in downtown Reno, NV along the Riverwalk. What a great way to start getting reacquainted with this great city! The weather was perfect and the photographers were great! The theme for our walk was shadows and reflections. When adding a theme you start to look at…

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Drop in Splash

Just when I was starting to feel comfortable with splash we were given a new challenge, capture the splash from an object being dropped into liquid, capture the bloom of the splash. I choose to do a shoot with vodka, a Grey Goose martin with olives. I played with many different styles of lighting. I…

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Splash from Behind

  Well here is my experience with assignment #3…wow was it a challenge! And what a mess! Everything and everyone was wet after this… I had been throwing water for a week with no good images. I was ready to give up, sitting in front of my computer looking at the less than great splashes…

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Final Messy Splash

This my final image. I am happy with it. I have a splash and a messy pour. 1/250 sec, f11, and 1/64 sec on strobe. It is amazing just how much planning it takes to create a splash shot. So many things to consider, lighting, reflection, speculars, type of lighting, white cards, black cards, flash…

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First Try With Splash

So I am all setup and I did my first test run. It was pretty much a wet mess. However, I am so happy with my outcome! I’m on the right track, more white cards, more black cards, more water, more ice, and add in the boom. I am getting it! I love the challenge….

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Let’s Try This Again

A new beginning in my old passion…photography! Splashing, smashing and still. I am excited! I love learning something new! I can’t wait to see what I can do with liquid! I have spent this last week collecting, buying and digging things out while I was waiting for this class. I received my first assignment on…

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Splash!

Coming in August, I am going to do a thing…make beautiful SPLASH images. (I hope…hehehe) I ‘m taking a class on creating “splash” images and getting excited to see just what kind of awesome images I can create. Let me say I have created a few images in the past that involved liquid and it…

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