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Post by srhookem on Nov 10, 2007 13:57:00 GMT -5
Four heads in various modifiers. Blue gels on the background, softbox overhead, standard reflector as the main light. See the set shot for details.   |
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Post by JBHII on Nov 11, 2007 10:51:45 GMT -5
Quite the elaborate set up. A few questions:
1. How did you time the drop of the watch into the tank with the shutter release? Even with a rapid fire shutter release setting, it seems unlikely you could have caught the watch at precisely the moment you did.
2. The watch is perfectly angled toward the camera. How? Physics suggest the watch head would be falling face down and the bracelet would not have naturally kept its shape.
3. There's also significant motion blur of the bubbles, yet the watch remains perfectly sharp and in focus.
Based on the above, this photo appears to be two different photographs merged together in Photoshop.
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Post by srhookem on Nov 11, 2007 17:48:33 GMT -5
I may be stupid but I'm not dropping a Breitling anywhere!
The watch is attached to a clear former with a rear post. This is attached to a clear sheet of acrylic inside the tank. I took one shot of the watch with the lighting as you see it here. I then blew bubbles through clear tubes attached to the bottom of the tank. I shot about 40 shots of bubbles to get the ones I wanted. I combined several shots of bubbles, masked the original watch image to let the dial come through and erased some stray bubbles in the lower frame. It's one image, slightly manipulated. But it is all underwater.
Then final printed image will have some slight motion blur to the bracelet.
Physics is too much for me.....
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