WATER TANK
Splash Liquids
Water Tank High Speed Capture Photography
Water Tank photography is one of my specialties. High-speed capture, water tank image making. This is a test of patience, high key lighting and hours and hour of shooting for one great shot.
Drop, toss, or throw the item, fire the camera, cleanup the set and get ready again to repeat the process over and over.
A 50-60 gallon glass tank and hundreds upon hundreds of times the item dropped into the tank and capture the action at high speed.
There’s a certain rhythm that happens when everything from the previews are looking good and you know you’re getting the image.
I keep going until the energy is exhausted and I know i have several to choose from for the final image.
All to get the one image you imagined in the beginning or what normally happens is better than you could imagine.
Splash Liquids Photography
Splash+Liquids: High-speed capture image making photography. That is to say, one of my favorite themes, The Splash. I recall as a little kid after a good rain storm we’d go playing in the water and create some cool splashes.
Do you recall for example, skipping a stone across the pond is something every kid has done. It still looks cool just like the first time you did it.
Thinking beyond those ideas, what other splashes+liquids could I come up with to make a really great advertising photography. Ideas of controlled high-speed capture splash photography.
Besides the experimentation and test shooting to figure out how the shot is going to work, there is the challenge of keeping the shooting area and camera as dry as possible.
As soon as I splash the liquids and the camera fires, on goes the wet-vac and quickly as possible. Then you can look at what you captured and setup for the next set of captures or photos.
Always keep shooting until you have the shot or exhausted the idea and have a few to choose from. Be critically honest in the editing process. Don’t accept anything less than your best.
