posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 in Photographers Matt Adcock
Recently, i've been exploring lots of photography in / around the water. This last weekend, we were neck deep in water shooting a client in a dark dark place. I wanted to add lots of color to the water but didnt want much of that color to jump out and light my subject.
I wanted to post this photo for my readers who stop by from time to time and see if you can figure out what I did here. I have a very clever idea for executing this technique and want to see if anybody can come up with something similar.
Anyway, here is a subject lit with a few hot light sources. The water is lit with strobe. Any ideas as to how I got these results? I was shooting a TTD in a dark dark cave with lots of water :)
Wow, guys, AWESOME, I am very surprise of the BOM you guys are together working, congratulations, I am from the FORO de Fotografos, and like every one, I LOVE SO MUCH your work.
Aw, just go low-tech and get some floating candles!
Dave, yes that is the photos from the underground session we discussed last week. Great to meet new amigos, for sure!
WOW! this was the photos you were telling us about last sunday? men, you´re crazy, this is awesome. thanks for posting and colaborating with our knowledge!
Matt/Sol, I have to say, you rule guys!! what an awesome shot!
Amazing!
More to come from this photoshoot, it was SOOOOO HARD, I would say the hardest TTD ever, but Matt has the most amazing lightening ideas and the results are out of this world..
Flash was swimming,. as we ALL were…
Happy times!
My first guess would be with the camera WB set to Tungsten to get that blue look on the water, and then a second flash from behind with a full CTO gel plus a little extra to get that flash back to normal and then warmed up a bit to get her lit up like she is.
hola amigos,
yep, you are all right. I actually put a strobe in my video camera UW housing. Strobes won’t work too well more than 12 inches under the water if you are using Pocket Wizards to trigger them… i guess then the PW’s aren’t sending / receiving that radio signal.
I used 1/2 power and added a blue / magenta gel to the flash.
*1 PW MAX died on this shoot :(
This was a dark dark Cenote Cave underground. I used a few hot lights for the model, sony video lights.
more photos coming soon :)
cheers!
MATT
I love the shot of the bride in the pool! Very rich visual!
My guess as to how you did it? The obvious lights are the bare-ish strobes camera right and behind the model. The flash behind may have 1/4 CTO and probably snooted? For the blue light in the pool, my guess is you actually submerged the strobe. Something cheap like a 285HV in a plastic bag? With a pocket-wizard through a sync cord for the trigger.
I’m probably way off… I’m a noob but have been studying lots of strobist shots lately.
Matt.
First let me say wow.
Wow.
Second, I don’t know how you lit this, but it feels very much like it was lit from below. But rather than submerge your flash, I’m wondering if you have something on the surface (like, but not as gauche a,s a bucket). That way the flash stays above water, but you can get the flash head a couple inches below the surface.
Even if you don’t tell me, though, I’m going to go play. Soon as the water here isn’t frozen. Or maybe in a bathtub.
Hey matt, nice to have a new post up on here.
I’ll take a stab and say that you had a blue gelled flash in some sort of casing under the water?
and an orange gelled flash from the left zoomed/or snooted?
I know i have to be wrong, but its worth a try right?