Stanton Bridge
A recent job for: Engineeringclarity
Shot on location and studio.
A little Peaky Blinders I think!
Glass and Tablets
Glass and tablets.
Brief:
Produce an image to show tablets falling into a glass of water. Keeping the image nice clean and simple with a monochromatic feel.
I wanted to produce the shot using minimum Photoshop; shooting all the aspects and then simply stripping them together.
We chose a very simple beaker, the everyday type you would find by millions of bedsides all over the world, very cheap as well!
The background was to be kept neutral, a black perspex was chosen set against a white background.
The beaker was placed in position and we were off!
It was quite apparent that during the shoot the background would become rather wet so the glass was lit and shot to give us a good background plate.
The tablets were then introduced, using a very crude but effective soldering wire pushed into a lump of blu tac.
The tablets were shot at different heights and angles above the glass.
Next was the impact shot!
This was tricky. To replicate the same splash a meagre tablet would produce without showing what was producing the effect took some thought.
Water! We decided to use small drops of water, perfect!
Too strong
Maybe??
Quite violent.
Timing was essential! Big drops, small drops, falling gently and plunging with various degrees of force.
Maybe??
Quite violent.
Timing was essential! Big drops, small drops, falling gently and plunging with various degrees of force.The glass, alas, had to be cleaned after each attempt, but we persevered until we had a suitable impact splash.
All that was left to do was put the whole lot together!
Not forgetting of course to add a reflection!Click on images for larger view.
Who said bleach isn’t beautiful? (Cleaning the bathroom can be inspirational!)
This shot came about whilst I was cleaning the bathroom! I was using a bottle of bleach, the type of bottle with a nozzle.
I squeezed the inverted container which was nearly exhausted, a bubble appeared, within this bubble the viscous liquid drizzled collecting at the bottom, not in a pool but a molten-like stream against the inner surface of the bubble. It looked quite impressive!
I had to recreate this in the studio!
I aquired some more bottles of bleach and began to experiment.
The main problem was that the bottle had to be virtually empty so I would not get many chances before there was no bleach left, but I was able to suck up more liquid by squeezing the bottle whilst holding a container below.
I continued to shoot..
Producing many variations
After several hours I chose three images and set to work in Photoshop:
Click on images for larger view.
Industry
A recent commission for a large blue chip company with locations worldwide shot in the heart of England.
The brief was people and machines, which was a change to the normal brief as the company are fully focussed on their people who are the main asset of any company.
With a tight deadline as usual and reluctance to slow down the work flow of a company which works twenty four hours a day with it’s own tight supply deadlines and extreme quality output.
So a swift and coherent approach was necessary working with ambient light and flash capturing the essence of the company and their people.
Working within strict safety regulations goes without saying I always use Elinchrom Ranger packs with Skyport attached to my camera and no effect on the electricity system of the factory.
Next location Spain
