Care for a splash of Red?
This photo was produced “in-camera” meaning that the only help from Photoshop was to crop the image and apply a little sharpening. So how did I get the splash effect, well it’s a secret 
OK, not so secret. The wine glass was filled with colored water as real wine would have been too dark. The glass was taped to a piece of foamcore and the foamcore board was rested on some wheels so that it could roll to the right. I focused, killed the lights and rolled the foamcore into a stack of books. The dead-stop caused the liquid to spill – and the noise activated a sound trigger which fired a flash pointing at the wall behind the glass. Then I closed the shutter, turned on the lights and checked my work.
3 Comments
A tricky little number
This was an interesting photographic exercise – namely to use one light source to do double-duty. As it turned out, the single light is doing triple-duty.
Basically the light source is positioned camera-right. The coin is standing on a dark glass counter-top. Firstly, a blue card acting as a background is illuminated by the light and then reflected in the dark glass to provide the main color source here (but the card is sufficiently far behind the coin to be easily cropped out). Secondly, there is a card with silver foil on it camera-left, it is reflecting light onto the surface of the coin. Thirdly, a carefully positioned piece of red-gel casts a glow to the edge of the coin. One light, three uses.
