Workshop 36

Milk and Chocolate Splash

▸ Shooting with ultrashort flash durations

▸ Using snoots, flags, and colored gels for splash shots

▸ Creating a perfect splash image from three exposures

Splatter and splash photos are popular, and you can find hundreds of coffee splashes on Flickr. More complex splash photos of olives, sugar cubes, ice cubes, and cookies falling into milk, cream, coffee, cola, or blue Curaçao are an integral part of the current advertising scene. Capturing splash photos is a lot of fun, but it involves some special gear and a fair amount of preparation. A 1cross-beam sensor, like the Jokie I use (see workshop 39), is ideal for ensuring picture-perfect results every time. With a little patience you can even capture splash ...

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