Mastering Splash: Liquid photography insights

Mastering Splash: Liquid Photography Insights

This site is about liquid studio photography, which has to be one of the most creative and technically challenging types of photography we know.  If you need advise, looking for a critique or simply want to learn about liquid photography, this is the right place for you.

  • Studio Photography Insights hangout: creating splash on a black background. Liquid demon

    Hope you know that every Wednesday, at 10PM Eastern time I and Dave Nitsche do Google Plus hangout, called "Studio Photography Insights". More about this event can be found on my studio blog: Weekly Show. Sometimes we just talk, but sometimes I run a ...

  • Lancome Mascara and liquid drops Lancome mascara shot with liquid splash

    This is a quick walk-through for the Lancome shot we had recently done.
    The shot was staged in a 3 different sets: The mascara alone, then the mascara in a water and drops of liquid gels in a water. All of them were necessary and none of them could be combined in one shot.

  • Hi all… I’m Dave… truce by Dave Nitsche

    I won’t bore you all with my history (actually I will but that will come later) so I’m just gonna get right into it…  From the time I started shooting, about 10 years ago, all I’ve ever heard is that you need studio lights to make great pics ...

 
  • Photographing Liquids: tutorial #1 Blue splash : tutorial by Alex Koloskov

    This video is a detailed walk-through of creating the image you see below. The image is quite simple, just a drop of perfume bottle in the water. However, I tried to show you the whole process of creating such shot, with my thoughts and the troubles...

  • Dior creme shot in-development preview Cream-splash-bottle82665

    We are working on the creative shot of Dior creme, and in this video I show and explain the "splash" part of the shot. I also talk about a complete concept for the shot, so you'll understand why we need these kind of splashes.

  • Making of: Splash Garden Splash Garden by Alex Koloskov

    While preparing the Godiva liqueur shot we tried shooting with many different liquids, including water colored by fabric dye.

    During that particular photoshoot I was developing different techniques for splash shapes and learning how to consistenly throw them.  We’ve got hundreds of different colored splashes.

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  • Triggertrap device: universal off-camera trigger Triggertrap

    Haje Jan Kamps, writer, photographer and my fellow Pixiq contributor (he is the top one) has developed a very interesting triggering device. This is an open-source, Arduino-based universal camera trigger.

  • Hasselblad H4x camera hands-on review Hasselblad H4x camera hands-on review

    This weekend I had a great opportunity to play with newest Hasselblad model, H4x (x for extended) medium format camera. As you know, I own old PhaseOne P25+ digital back for H mount, and I use it with H1 Hasselblad.