I am packing for a workshop in Paris, so you can see the car is pretty full.
I’ve got all sorts of bits of stuff in there, all the bits I used for splash shots, whisky shots.
I’m doing this workshop for about 50 people in a studio in Paris for broncolor and we’re covering all sorts of different techniques on product photography and liquids and stuff.
And you can see the car is absolutely jammed.
This is a good trick - I always use a big black cloth and then I drape the black cloth over everything.
So when when the car is shut you can’t see in it because it’s got the blackened glass.
So almost there, pretty much got everything ready. Just need to pack my own clothes now.
So I said I’m going to try a shot with a white cube, so I just got this white cube made.
So I thought about a white cube with white and then with yellow paint hitting the white cube.
So we’re going to test with water,
because we’ve also got to try and work out how much we need. So when you’re ready, you can throw.
OK, let’s see what we caught.
Right, OK. Let’s see if we can make this work with paint.
OK, still not quite right. Turn it a bit more.
Other way. Very close now, let’s try that.
We have fake ice, just acrylic ice.
We don’t want to waste the good whisky, go and buy some cheap whisky.
So moving the light further away the glow gets bigger. The power is going to be weaker we we’re going to need to turn the power up.
Now the key principle to think about here is what are we trying to achieve, what are we trying to photograph?
Well we want to make it look like the Chanel bottle is floating in the water.
So, the workshop is over.
And we are packing up, everyone is packing everything away now.
These guys have been great, this is from Pin-Up Studio in Paris.
Really good.
Really good day, we had a lot of people here. And it’s all getting cleared away.
Got to load it all back in my car as well, all my stuff over there. So yeah, good fun.