Today I was revising some web pages on my primary website mvoDesign and decided to design a background similar to that which adorns these pages.
I chose another photo from my portfolio of waterdrop macro images, which captures a small droplet just as it plunges into a clear glass of water. Three studio strobes froze the motion, and colored gels tinted the waterdrop with a saturated red color.
In the slightly revised version above, I changed the overall hue in Photoshop to get an ice blue color, which actually looks more natural than the un-retouched red version, which you can see here. I love the "fractured" look within the droplet, which probably results from internal light reflections of the drop/water interface at the plane of impact.
To see more of these photos, feel free to visit my water art gallery. The two studio sessions I did back in early 2007 were a great learning experience which tested my patience (something I sorely lack), but yielded some wonderful images that I continue to enjoy today.
For the technically curious, a photo and detailed description of the camera setup appears on PixArtWeb in a blog entry I made in September 2008.
on December 15, 2011, 9:39 am
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