Playing in Water
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.
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.