Few weeks George asked me to help out on a shoot, and always if I'm free I'm there. For this shot were doing something creative with Tiffany. If you read the previous post then you know exactly who she is, if not then you should read the last few posts. Just like any of the shoots with George I really don't know what is really going on, I'm just there no questions asked.

Tiffany arrive and like always were clowning, and crack jokes. One thing folks don't know is that Tiffany has a very creative mind, a very imaginative mind. If you was to give her an idea she will execute it the nth power. Everything she does is with passion and commitment, and she's down for the cause. While there I decided to do a behind the scenes type video for George, at the same time I was checking making sure everything was coming out great, and it they were.

As always remember to check out their pages and website

George Clarence - Photographer www.georgeclarence.com

Tiffany Marie - MUA Tiffany (facebook)

Today, I took a different approach to a challenge that was posted the Photowalk:Michigan facebook page. The theme was water, so instead of you typical old shoots of what I already did with beaches, lakes, and rivers. I decided to do something different.

What I decided to do was, try my hand at capturing splashes. As this was my first time attempting this as I seen maybe two videos last year and they had more lights than I did. For the setup I used an Alien Bee AB800 and a Yungnuo 480 speedlight. Both lights had a grid on them the alien bee had a 10 degree and the speedlight had an 30 degree grid I believe.

Without any true direction, I used an orange to help create the splashes. I tried to use different positions with the camera. Two positions was in front of the tank and one was directly above the tank. At that position there was a lot water splashes that went directly towards the lens. In the end I was happy with the outcome of the end results.

Shot directly from above - orange is visible in shot

Just like any first attempt at doing something for the first time, there is always a trail and error phase. With this there was plenty of it, as I had to position and balance out the lights as they were two different sources. Just trying to find the right angles. One last thing that I have to remember because I am working with water because I was working right next to an outlet things could have gotten disastrous. Next time I know to move the tank away from the wall and all outlets. I can't wait to try this again on a larger scale or with color water or paint.