Behind The Scene: “The Magic of Water” beauty shot

The beauty shot with liquid splash

Behind The Scene: “The Magic of Water” beauty shot

Post-production assembly piece is posted on MasteringSplash.com.

Jewelry shoot & post-production e-book announcement

Jewelry photography e-book announcement

I am glad to announce our latest work, a jewelry ring with splash:
 

It was experimental shoot, and we are going to release an e-book about how ti was done: the shot and a post-production.
Re-posted from  Genia’s blog:
Before and after photo of our upcoming ebook.
Stay tuned!

Announcement: new masterclass is coming soon.

alex koloskov liquid splash advertisement photography masterclass

We almost got it ready.
A full length walk-through the shot, with the video, sample images and post-production. The masterclass won’t be free and can be purchased through the paypal. I am calling it masterclass, because it is not a classical tutorial: I’ll be showing how we did the shot, not how you should do

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Mastering splash: the magic behind our liquid photography

butterfly splash liquid photography alex koloskov

One more cool shot and article on my pixiq blog. As usual, announcing here:
The magic behind our liquid photography
Feedback is appreciated, as usual. have you tried something similar? Please share!

If you’d like to learn more about the liquid photography, I have an e-book for you, which is based on my 5 hour “Mastering Splash” masterclass:

This

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Thank you and Happy Holidays!

We have entered a holiday week here in US: Turkey day (4th Thursday in November, also known as Thanksgiving day) is approaching. Having the whole week  in our kids Montessori school free from admission left us no choice but to run out from a city…  We landed in the North Georgia mountains in a beautiful

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You made this!

Francisco Vega Jewelry shot

This post inspired by the readers who used materials published on this blog to do their own shots. Similar technique, different results. Thank you, guys!

Here we are:
Francisco Vega ( ekselentphotography.com), inspired by this post:

Peter Alessandria  (greatproductshots.com), and others, inspired by this post:

Jeremy Countryman (jaxexposure.com):

Christopher Izaskun (encuadre.net):

Jeff Dillon Photography ( jeffdillonphotography.com)

Philip (80eight.co.uk):

Feel free to send me

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Water in product and advertisement photography: episode two released

fruit in water photography tutorila atlanta

This is a second episode (the first one is here) from the “Water in product and advertisement photography” series. This time we used the same tank and mix of distilled and sparkling water.
The idea was simple: pouring objects into a water and shooting through the water tank, positioning camera strictly horizontal. Because we have used

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Water in still life and advertisement photography: Episode one

water splash in advertising photography

As promised, here is the tutorial for what I call “underwater” product photography (not sure what the right name for this). We shoot several products, from fruits to a shampoo bottles, and now I am glad to show you the result.

This is the most enjoyable photo-shot I had for last few month: not only the

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Water splash photography (water splash with berries and apple)

Water splash photography with fruits

Once again we were playing with water and fruits. Small inflated pool, 3 Canon Speedlite Flash units and some handy support hardware makes it possible. Around 1/10.000 second flash duration can freeze any splash, only you need to worry about is a light distribution: reflectors and white backdrops are must to be here.
I was

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Water strawberry splash: stock photography photoset.

Some examples oh high-speed photography we did a while ago. I have used 3 Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash units, synchronization was done by hand:-)

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III camera, manual shooting mode, 1/250 sec, F4.5. Shutter speed does not really matter, as actual flash duration was about 1/3000 sec.

Do you like the result? Let

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Water, stone and leaf images for stock. Products photography.

water, water, everywhere.. Food and drink photographer.

We are continue to shoot water.. when we got time for this.
Below are some of the results:

Same setup, just trying to be more creative.

Just fruits