February 2019

[Andrey M]

Please submit your work on the past assignments here. We review them every month, last Thursday of the month.

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[Vincent FEUTRIER]

Hi Alex

This is my 2nd attend with the Christmas balls assignment.
I tried to apply all comments you have made last time.

* Nikon D300 f13 ISO 100
* Lense Nikon 105mm Macro
* 3 lights
* 1 Savage Translum difusor to create a big rectangular Soft Box
* 1 Strip Box (edge light)
* 1 white V flat
* Blue Gel for background

Thanks
Vincent

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[Vincent FEUTRIER]

with the correct file size

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[Match Point Studio Snc IT04958420269]

Hi Alex,

this is my second Pro Club assignment, and I really love to play with mirrors.

I find this metal and glossy lipstick for Valentine’s day, and i think they were perfect for this assignment.
I work a lot in postproduction to clean and have nice and sharp line, trying to leave the gradient.

I’m not sure if the lipstick front is ok, because i can’t have a nice text without overexposing the metal. I’ve tried also to have a bigger gradient from the two stripbox, but I lose the sharp edges.

Thank you in advance for your review

Matteo Braghetta
Match Point Studio

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[Andrew Oakley]

Hi Alex,

This is my first Pro Club submission and is for the Dynamic Glass Shot with Splashes.

This was very exciting because as a new studio, this was my first ever commission for a splash shot, so this was a real shoot for a client last week! The product is a new soft drink which can be drunk by itself or as a mixer with alcohol. The client brief was simply “a splash shot with flying lemon, lime and ice on a white background with a tall glass with the bottle” – they’d seen an image on my website that I did for the Photogy product photography course portfolio and liked the idea.

The day after shooting, I had a disaster – a burst water pipe flooded my studio and this is why there are no BTS shots – I’d left things set up intending to take BTS photos…then I woke up to find a lake where my studio used to be! So instead, I’ve attached a sketch of the set up and will describe below. Hope it’s clear enough:

Backdrop was Translum with a rear Elinchrom D-Lite RX4. Above the shooting table, was a second RX4 with a 4′ Strip box.
To the left of the table was a large diffuser with a 3rd RX4 and 4′ Strip box, angled to produce a gradient on the glass. I had a white card for shadow fill on the front right of the shooting surface.

I shot the bottle by dropping it on the table to get some liquid coming out of the neck. I triggered the camera with an acoustic trigger when the bottle hit the table.

I shot the tall glass originally in the same way, but in the end (and after breaking one glass), I got better images with it static and dropping lemon and lime from above the glass and triggering with a laser beam as it hit the liquid surface. I shot the fruit and ice hanging from a boom separately from the glass and bottle shots.

I composited about 6 images for the final composition.

The bottle had a frost effect made from petroleum jelly (Vaseline) coating the glass and then sprayed with a water / glycerine mix.

I replaced the juice in the bottle with a coloured water mix and a very very small (5mm on the end of a stirring rod) amount of PVA to make the water slightly cloudy like the real product, but not too cloudy to stop light passing through it and becoming too dark.

I shot at 1/4000 sec using Elinchrom Hi-Sync at f/11 200 ISO using a Canon 5D Mk3 + 100mm f2.8 macro lens.

Looking forward to your critique,

Regards,

Andrew

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[Shanne Simonsen]

Hi Alex
This is my first try at submitting something to Pro club ☺ It’s the #58 workshop with the fake icecubes.
I don’t have any, so I used a crystal bowl upside-down instead.

I use continues lights, and I have some awesome Lee filters, which I’ve used in my square LED lamp behind my backdrop to make the purple light.

Only one shot at f/13.0 1.0 ISO100 – no stacking.

My gear is:
Canon 80D with 100mm f/2.8L
Savage 700 Watt LED Studio Light Kit
walimex pro Soft LED 520 Brightlight Bi Color
Savage Translum medium

Thanks for the review
Shanne

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[Shanne Simonsen]

My final image was lost – here it is ☺

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