Art Store, a Wonderland for a Creative Mind

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Our trip to an Art Store

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Liquid Art from Markus Reugels: How to capture unseen

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Meet Markus Reugels, another photographer who captures unseen

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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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Water in product and advertisement photography

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This is a second episode 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 and positioning the camera strictly horizontal. Because we have used carbonated water, the tank must be 100% clean inside: every small piece of dirt on the glass will attract bubbles to build-up.

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Water in still life and advertisement photography

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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 most technically challenging but the end result is the most eye-catching and outstanding.

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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!

Update: This thread is closed, please use a forum to post your achievements: Photigy Forum

Here we are:

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Water splash photography (water splash with berries and apple)

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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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