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Just messing around, might make a series if I can tweak things just right.

Definitely know that the oil pool should be minimized as much as possible and I'll work on that in future shoots.

Cheers!

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Jan 25, 2016 at 05:58 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Playing Around


Fascinating idea! The last one got a bit too dark and amorphous, but I really like #1 and #2. What's your technique?

keith



Jan 25, 2016 at 06:04 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Playing Around


beanpkk wrote:
Fascinating idea! The last one got a bit too dark and amorphous, but I really like #1 and #2. What's your technique?

keith


Thanks Keith! The last one did get really dark, but there are some fun bits in the darkness. Overall prolly too much blockiness though.

Here's the setup. The bit of oil makes the food coloring fall more gracefully in the distilled water.

Jeff







Jan 25, 2016 at 06:22 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Playing Around


Interesting look forward to seeing more.

Walt



Jan 25, 2016 at 06:37 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Playing Around




WalterF wrote:
Interesting look forward to seeing more.

Walt


Thanks Walt! Still need to get the lighting a bit more uniform.



Jan 25, 2016 at 06:38 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Playing Around


Nice setup. Looks like it took over a room!

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Jan 25, 2016 at 07:08 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Playing Around


Great, now I would get in tight and eliminate the view of the glass, just concentrate on the colors and shapes.


Jan 25, 2016 at 07:53 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Playing Around




Camperjim wrote:
Great, now I would get in tight and eliminate the view of the glass, just concentrate on the colors and shapes.


Thanks, Jim - just the advice I'm looking for in terms of direction.

Cheers,

Jeff



Jan 25, 2016 at 07:54 PM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Playing Around


The second is my favorite



Jan 25, 2016 at 08:22 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Playing Around


Note to self, when poisoning a drink, use a clear poison.


Jan 25, 2016 at 11:13 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Playing Around


Good stuff.

+1 @ #2 ... nit @ not vertically aligned.




Jan 26, 2016 at 12:13 AM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Playing Around


ben egbert wrote:
The second is my favorite


Thanks Ben!

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AuntiPode wrote:
Note to self, when poisoning a drink, use a clear poison.


It tends to help the efficiency.

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RustyBug wrote:
Good stuff.

+1 @ #2 ... nit @ not vertically aligned.



Thanks Kent - +1 @ not entirely aligned.

Jeff



Jan 26, 2016 at 11:09 AM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Playing Around


Cool project! #3 has a special visual appeal to me. I think it might be the flowing twin curves entering the water.

+1 @ Jim's tighter suggestion and perhaps play around with rotating the camera about 45 deg for even more visual stimulation into the abstract world. Making it hard for the viewer to understand what they are seeing or know how it was made would make for stronger images I think with this type of work.

I can see many different ways to play around with this.
Larger bowl to eliminate any visual cue of it being in a glass?
Capture the splash?
Funky light sources like colored LED's or/or lasers?
Different media other than water?
Air bubbles? (plop-plop-fizz-fizz) <-- might be before your time.

Have fun and don't be afraid to use your imagination.
I suspect you're going to get some cool shots and looking forward to seeing more!

Dave



Jan 26, 2016 at 01:16 PM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Playing Around


Thanks for the feedback, Dave! This whole experiment has been tweaked from the get-go by being a failed WA attempt. Been playing around with different lighting, liquids, oils, vessels and the tweaking shall continue!

My end goal will be something closer to what you and Jim are thinking - less "stuff in a glass" and more "stuff". I think the scene is simplistic enough to where the it works well overall, but I think it being shot this way doesn't given proper weight to the most interesting part (the dye).

Cheers!

Jeff



Jan 26, 2016 at 01:55 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Playing Around


Not where I'd like to be yet, but making some progress I think.







Feb 01, 2016 at 06:47 PM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Playing Around


Little more dialed in.

Getting closer!

.edit added second shot with slightly diff comp














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mono, because i say so




Feb 01, 2016 at 08:48 PM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Playing Around


Anyone?


Feb 02, 2016 at 06:33 PM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Playing Around


I like the blue yellow versions best.


Feb 02, 2016 at 07:50 PM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Playing Around


lighthound wrote:
Cool project! #3 has a special visual appeal to me. I think it might be the flowing twin curves entering the water.

+1 @ Jim's tighter suggestion and perhaps play around with rotating the camera about 45 deg for even more visual stimulation into the abstract world. Making it hard for the viewer to understand what they are seeing or know how it was made would make for stronger images I think with this type of work.

I can see many different ways to play around with this.
Larger bowl to eliminate any visual cue of it being in a glass?
Capture
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+1 To all of Dave's suggestions.

Variations are getting better as you go along. I especially like the last blue and green effort that looks like flowers. Definitely a cool project. The nice thing about this is you can dump the glass and start over again fairly easily.



Feb 02, 2016 at 09:35 PM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Playing Around


The concept you have here is really good, I like it a lot. I think you need to work on simplicity here. Once the dye mixes too much, it just turns into mush and detracts from whatever shape you have. The sharp lines and defined shapes are the best parts (well to me at least). For example, in the last pair (blue/green and mono, it's the same drop), the green along the bottom has diffused away already, and I don't think it helps in any way.

Just my two cents. Of these, my favorite is the very first you posted. The symmetry there is just really nice, along with the contrast of the red on white. But, I would remove the green cast of the reflected glass along the bottom.



Feb 03, 2016 at 06:33 AM
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