For this experiment i wanted to take a photo of three Wine Glasses upright with the liquid at an angle ,First of all i taped the Glasses to a tray and then tilted the tray with the glasses taped down and then filled the furthest right glass with water and then the second with less water and finally the third with even less water ,what i wanted was the water level to be in line with each other when at the right angle as not to spill any.This first photo (although under exposed )shows the plan of action,with my nikon speed light placed away from the glasses and although not shown i made the light bounce of the ceiling as not to over expose the shot.
This second shot now shows the glasses nice and staight with the water at an angle,but this time i have over exposed the shot.
This shot was taken with a better exposure but now i have not got the glasses level
Finally i have the shot i am after the top of the glasses level as with the water nicely in a line at the required angle.With the light and shutter speed spot on and the lines clearly visiable.
Right the settings are set ,ISO 200,shutter speed 1/250sec at f/18 at 105m macro lense with a Nikon SP600 speedlight fitted with a slave so i could position the speed light any where ,but to fire the flash i had to pop up the camera flash which i didn't want as this would cast a shadow on my background (a wipeable vinyl white sheet).Having done all that i had to get the glasses at an angle to be level when the photo was taken,so in my viewfinder the grid lines that are in you view finder had to be parrell with the top of the glasses,so tilting the camera to the desired angle so the line in the view finder was in line with the top of the glasses ,once they were levell i took the shot and it automatically shoewd the picture as above when it was displayed on my camera screen.
Just to add a little more interest in the picture i then trickled a few drops of food colouring into each glass whilst still at the angle and here are the results.
Finally i cropped out the image so you couldn't see that the glasses were taped to a tray.
For this experiment i wanted to take a photo of three Wine Glasses upright with the liquid at an angle ,First of all i taped the Glasses to a tray and then tilted the tray with the glasses taped down and then filled the furthest right glass with water and then the second with less water and finally the third with even less water ,what i wanted was the water level to be in line with each other when at the right angle as not to spill any.This first photo (although under exposed )shows the plan of action,with my nikon speed light placed away from the glasses and although not shown i made the light bounce of the ceiling as not to over expose the shot.
This second shot now shows the glasses nice and staight with the water at an angle,but this time i have over exposed the shot.
This shot was taken with a better exposure but now i have not got the glasses level 
Finally i have the shot i am after the top of the glasses level as with the water nicely in a line at the required angle.With the light and shutter speed spot on and the lines clearly visiable.
Right the settings are set ,ISO 200,shutter speed 1/250sec at f/18 at 105m macro lense with a Nikon SP600 speedlight fitted with a slave so i could position the speed light any where ,but to fire the flash i had to pop up the camera flash which i didn't want as this would cast a shadow on my background (a wipeable vinyl white sheet).Having done all that i had to get the glasses at an angle to be level when the photo was taken,so in my viewfinder the grid lines that are in you view finder had to be parrell with the top of the glasses,so tilting the camera to the desired angle so the line in the view finder was in line with the top of the glasses ,once they were levell i took the shot and it automatically shoewd the picture as above when it was displayed on my camera screen.
Just to add a little more interest in the picture i then trickled a few drops of food colouring into each glass whilst still at the angle and here are the results.
Finally i cropped out the image so you couldn't see that the glasses were taped to a tray.
Hi This idea is fab I love it! Have you tried a different colour background for a different effect. :-) Deb
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ReplyDeleteA good shoot and slightly disconcerting with the slant, what is the most important thing here is that you are taking time to shoot images away from college to add value to your work.
The next session for you is all about labelling your blog I will help you with this as we discussed.
Steve
brilliant images...stunning idea...well done...
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