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a photographer's while look at that weather out there
winter who wouldn't want to go out and take pictures in weather like that
that her anyway so if the weather outside is not playing ball for you then
I've got a great
indoor shoot for you to do whatever the weather don't forget to check out around
his latest contest
and your chance to win amazing prizes the idea is that we're gonna photograph
a splash of color quite literally in fact
because I'm gonna photograph a lemon being dropped into a glass of water
now if you see me do Splash photography before then you know we can do this on
a release important low-budget setup
it happened and go check out the Adorama Learning Center we can find out lots
more information
now what I want is a nice clean white background so I got my little pop-up
black and white background on the the white side and I'm going to use
my Speedlite flash to illuminate the background
and I mean a backlit the scene so that's the idea so I may get my flash
I'm gonna put it onto man you married and we're gonna put it down into one
8 power why 18 power we gotta start somewhere and
that seems like a good place to begin chances are we'll need to change it but
for now
well pop it at 18 for the camera and work in AM for manual
I'm gonna be on a 202 the second shot a spade argues excited my aperture
I'm a starter ISO 200 I may end up changing that again a good place to
begin
on a tripod because well I'm not gonna be at the press the button
drop a lemon and do everything Boston behind the camera so a tripod is really
important for this huge
and is a little remote released to trigger everything
as one more thing I need to do my a speedlight is already set so it's in its
slave maid
but the actual camera itself I need to pop up little flash
to trigger the the main flash and that night to them after
and then the Speedlite as a slight my need is one more piece of equipment that
I was having the studio but whenever I'm photographing water it
absolutely vital the really good how
you gonna need this is gonna get wet so I got my class here this is the
think we're gonna drop the lemon into and I'm gonna fill it with water but
just to put a little bit more interest inside the glass
I've got some %uh veins and that these are ice cubes but
is winter I i wanna hold real ice cubes its freezing enough as it is
leader actually fake these are made out glass
saying pick up lower for perspective ice cubes or course you can use real ones
if you like Senate just at the earliest and Manchester Hyatt
don't you got your shop framed
up he's a really good hip make sure your glasses in focus
and then switch from autofocus to manual focus
that way when you're taking pitches new away from the camera %um won't have to
worry about it suddenly
refocusing and and missing a great shot okay so they think it s picture
pratt was taken without a flash to show you why it's so important
if the flash doesn't fire and I really don't have a picture it
almost totally black no flash no pitcher
with the flash going well let's take a test pitcher and see how we can act
that white background is not quite as white
I'd like it to be now remember I'm on one night power for the flash
so either a little wiggle room here this code increase the flash
how so I'm gonna die did up from 18 to a court at how
that one more stop a blight after meetings brighter that may well be just
the right solution
let's take the same shot again here we go yes better I've definitely got more
whites
yeah I'm losing a little bit still has been a great on the background now
I don't wanna go any more on the flash than a call to power because
the freezing power of the flash the reason water comes out
frozen and sharp is because the flash only last for a very short period time
and a call to power the duration is a *** out of four thousand to the second
by increase the flash power there and I think the oil change the shutter speed
and I would end up with water that's not quite a shop so
I don't wanna go anymore than a quarter power but I can still drink the ISO
among 200 ISO at the moment okay well that's just popping up to 400 eyesight
and we'll see how that changes the shot
yet perfect okay so 400 ISO call to power on the flash
f8 we're ready to go
so I'm ready to start taking pictures I got my my lemon now sliced up
and waters ready and I the the camera set
so when I need to do is drop this perfectly into the water
can press the button at the exact moment when it creates the perfect splash
yes using a happen in one shot this is take if you guys were here we go
line things up or try member to get high enough so my hands now in the frame
and slash okay well
and that guy
well that is not too bad nasa a pretty good splash but it's probably a better
one in his some wesson let's get my 11 back and we'll
or top up the water weekend
and we'll go again and this really is a numbers game the more you do this the
more chance getting good splash
now he's gonna get the timing right top that once more
and 11 and will drop it in
excellent okay so got a really good shot there
now if you don't get it after a couple guys you can eat just to white down your
your surface here
and well try again but remember he do 110 yourself is if you move
your camera or your and glass a water
you've got to refocus remember your manual focus if anything changes
that could cause you problems you don't wanna miss a shot is at a focus
and just do one more he week a
Wow big splash
fantastic
now once you got a really good shot that you're happy with the temptation is to
stop you've got the picture well done
but maybe try couple of other ideas and try going close aside
a battery frame go place at and to take like mortgages
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good
okay so there we go we got lots have pictures some good some bad but remember
we only really need one great pitcher
I'm gonna find that and run it through Photoshop right now
so of course when I said Photoshop when I meant
Photoshop and Lightroom because Lightroom is the perfect all
editing lotsa pictures like that shoot to see how it's done
so what I got here are just a few of the pictures that I shot
and you'll see that the class doesn't change shot to shot
the lighting doesn't change I need a splash changes
and some it's very good others it's the
not so good I think that's what's a good at that one that was a great show and
he's literally are one sequence of images
the end it's a good so I'm gonna choose my page the process which will be this
one he and
and the great thing about Lightroom is when you process one picture
you want to repeat it on lotsa pitches it can do it automatically
and pretty much instantly say it first thing to do is have a look at these
white background
it is white background as white as I thought it was now
when I took my pitches I looked at the back at the camera and I had the
highlight warning blinking away saying that background is nice
and bright and white trouble is
the back at the camera shows you AJ pague image so it's
processed by the camera and I shoot in RAW
so these are the un process pitches and that white background
isn't quite white so that's gone have to look so if I turn on the the clipping
warning there for the highlights
and I come down to the whites and increase the whites
that's what I'm saying on the back at the camera so if you're shooting Heikki
and you're processing in Lightroom for like 15 or Photoshop
cs6 or CC then you find you do have to bump up the white slider to get it to
look
more like back in your camera and what time he ran a push up the clarity
two reasons partly because this really does work well with clarity but mostly
because I just like clarity
next we're gonna make some local adjustments
and we're going to use the adjustment brush now they just brush festival need
to reset
or the sliders nice little lightning trick double click on the word perfect
everything goes back to 0 now all I want to do actually is just increase
the the brightness the exposure where not quite as bright as it could be
senators push this up maybe said three-quarters of a stop something like
that
and I'm just gonna paint across the top and around the bottom
yes roughly painting in a little bit extra light like site now you see
not everywhere went and as have white is it could
so I think on the New button to make another brush
and repeat it will start somewhere different said that in starts in a
different place
otherwise I will depend on top of each other and get some confusing
okay same here that looks pretty good I can turn off the hall light warning
yep that's fine now also making local adjustments let's zoom in a little bit
closer and see what we can do with the inside of the glass
say let's start with the lemon here in an eleven that's pretty good
but not as good as some of the other 11 shots it's gone over in a bit of an
angle
I'm click on the Neubauten and I'm gonna leave the exposure about where it is but
I'm also gonna push up
the saturation so with this brush I'm changing both exposure
and saturation at the same time give that Levin
a nice little pushing brightness and the rest that last things pretty good now
is worth noting have a look at the eighties at the class can you see that
these nice
dark strips around the outside and also around the outside
all the the splashes as well now that is
army yep there's a reason I'm wearing dark clothes for the shoot
because I one is nice dark ages around the glassware and the splash
so you need to have something dark in this case just me wearing dark clothes
was enough
the the other side is dark because well I was just a big empty darkroom
facing the other direction you don't have to close or
a dark room then you're gonna wanna have something like some black flags I just
black material or some blackboards
yes to be that nice age in dark color
okay so at the actual rest the class what i'll do is just making a new brush
and this time I'm gonna reset everything and just
decrease the highlights so they're not quite as bright and remove any
saturation that i won any kala
in these parts the picture and you want to come out to come from that yellow
lemon
there is just a hint of color there other than that in the *** looks pretty
much
monochromatic okay said there we go thats
that back onto the screen and there's the pitcher completed
now lovely thing about my room is its speed at which you can copy that affect
on all the other pitches is how it's done
on the filmstrip I'm just gonna press Control I and they all become selected
then I can click on the sync button and say yep check all
synchronize and every paycheck get exactly the same treatment
exactly the same sense just go through them and see yapping
all got the same price as saying an act all look good
and now they're all processed you can make an informed and educated decision
about which one you like I think
on pretty good too however you might find
if you're painting little things like the lemon you will need to repaint nap
from
shot two-shot but that one's my favorite picture and as my final
image now if you're in New York City on the 25th February
2014 and you'd like to spend the day with me
talking about photography and taking some great pitches
well you're in luck the one they only I'm gonna be running a series of
workshops and seminars
Adorama made it all possible and it's completely
free we need to do is jump over to the at around the web site
and register tickets are strictly limited first-come
first-served however if you wanna see more videos from a
and the other amazing presenters here at around the TV
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