Studio Photography Insights with special guest: Bill Cahill

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This is one of the most interesting hangouts, as we have Bill Cahill joined us. This guy is brilliant, and completely open on sharing his techniques and insights of the business. He is one of the best advertisement product and liquid photographers, working with Coca Cola, BP, V8 and many other recognizable brands.

 

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Watch and wave: my weekly assignment photo-shoot BTS video

Studio Photography weekly assignment: watch shot

This is what I’ve got for the Studio Photography Insights #8: my version of creative watch shot:

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Liquid Tutorial #2: The Video

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This is the video tutorial about hot to create “C” shaped splashes.

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Liquid Tutorial #2: art of creating free floating water splashes

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After a great success of our “Splash Garden” series, and now we waned to created something similar on a white background. So, one day was spent in a studio and we got our “Liquid Love”

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

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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.

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Our latest work, Dior creme in a splash flower

Dior Creme flower splash by Alex Koloskov

So, this is what we’ve been working lately.

The whole process was captured and I am working on putting the video together. In a few weeks we’ll have it released as a video tutorial.

A little bit information about how the image was done: Every paddle splash was

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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.

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Hi all… I’m Dave…

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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 happen. Until about 8 months ago

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Behind The Scene: "The Magic of Water" beauty shot

Thee magic of water beauty splash photography by koloskov

This is a video we got recorded from this beauty shot:
Want to explain what was going on: First we thought to shoot a completely separate shots of the model and a splash and combine them into one composition in post.

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Making of: Liquid Snail

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See how many interesting compositions can be made from a single but a very productive photo-session:-) Look at this beautiful snail, escaped from our splash garden!

And below is a collection of the major parts we have used for a liquid snail creation. These are unaltered, as-is from a camera shots. As you see, only slight deformations and lots of creativity were needed to put them together to form a snail. Color correction had

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