Help!!! How do I photograph this?

[blackwize]

I appreciate any information you can share with me.
Cheers, Nana Kofi
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[adamwynne]

You mean how do you get a stop motion of something that happens once?

For the fast stop motion, use a blacked out room, shutter open on bulb, fire a flash.

To get the flash to fire at the instant the liquid comes out of the can, use some sort of electronic timing device opening (for instance) a compressed air valve at the bottom of the can, and a timed delay, and then fire the flash.

Thats how I'd do it anyway. You can also trigger by noise on some systems, useful for gun stopmotion etc.

[tomd]

could that be a single frame from a video?
The repeated cola (or whatever liquid it is) on the right side is curious.

[Mr Limpett]

take a shot of the can and add the liquid later.
Theres no way you could move a finger or something
out of the frame in time.

[blackwize]

I have no problem taking shots of the can. I just need to know how to capture the liquid shot like this. Ignore the repeat on the right side. It is not a frame from a video. It is a photograph.

[frzndaqiri]

It appears that the liquid might have been in a shot glass or something with an appropriately small mouth, and something tossed heavily into it to get the action of the splash. Or, think backwards. Might be getting dumped into something, and what you see is the tail end of the pour.

Sorry I can't offer more in the way of technique, but hopefully that will inspire some research direction.

[blackwize]

thanks for your info frzndaqiri. I wish more members will talk to me

[eror11]

drill a hole in the bottom of an opened can or cut the entire bottm out... turn the can (and the camera) upside down. Pour whatever liquid you want into the big hole you drilled in the bottom (the bottom now being turned up)... while its pouring out, press the shutter with long exposure. Fire flash to freeze motion. Or set really short exposure and try to time yourself well... you can repeat this over and over without needing to waste 100s of cans of cola...

[blackwize]

thanks eror11. will give your technique a shot and let u know

[theveed]

Can't you just do high-speed synch and just pour the content from the can normally then just rotate the image afterwards?

[Chris450D]

a good trick is to saw open the can or bottle in half. place the can face down and open. ask someone to pour cola or whatever liquid u like down the sawed end and you will achieve that effect. then just rotate the finished photo later =) this way you can experiment with ease

-my bad already been stated above lol!

[blackwize]

thanks good people for sharing your ideas

[S-S]

the drink doesnt actually look like cola to me - its not see-thru
it looks like a piece of cgi graphics - in fact the whole can could pass for a drawing rather than a photo...

[blackwize]

somethingsimple. the drink is milo

[canonloader]

Just open the can, use studio lighting so you don't have to fart around with flash or strobe. Have someone hold the can in the correct position, angled, tilted, whatever, then start firing on High Speed Drive and when the guy holding the can hears it, jerk the can down at the correct angle. The liquid will come squirting out pretty much like that and you got the shot.

No doubt, it will take a few practice tries, but that's what I'd do.

[blackwize]

Very practical advice you have there, Canonloader. Thank you.

[canonloader]

Post back when you get something that works. I'd be interested in hearing what you finally do. :)

[S-S]

somethingsimple. the drink is milo

milo in a CAN? well well, never heard of that one before!
over here milo comes in powder form, or premixed milk drinks are in cartons
ive never seen one in a can

but, that explains it

[tomd]

Mitch,
wouldn't your idea (dropping the can away) result in a blurry can or would the shutter speed be fast enought to "stop" the motion and freeze it?

[canonloader]

I think anything fast enough to stop the water, would stop the can.

[tomd]

I think anything fast enough to stop the water, would stop the can.


good point. :oops:

[canonloader]

Well, I think it would. I have never actually tried this, but I have seen a soda slurp out of the can when it was jerked down like I described. Personally, any good video camera with a high frame rate could take shots like above, at 30 times a second. All it takes is enough light. ;)

[Jannie]

I've done something like this with a slow motion film camera before using the simpliest of systems. frame up the camera on the end of the can being held by a person holding it with their right hand. Have them hold their left hand over their right wrist to creat a stop or use a padded grip arm. Have them lower the can hand about 8 inches and say go, pull the trigger as their hand moves, do it over and over to see what you have to adjust, faster, slower, more abrupt stop as the can comes up. You'll get a lot of variety, if you have a camera that'll shoot a lot of frames per second then so much the better but a lot of the secret is to do it a bunch of times.

We used to shoot with a special kind of strobe for motion picture and have food and water flying through the frame, always set up for the apex of the throw so that a whole bucket or two of water met in the middle as the tomatoes came into it from the other side, wonderful stuff.

The simplest thing to contain the liquid that falls to lessen the mess is to do it over a childs blow up wading pool, hard to find in winter though.

[rrdjserv@earthlink.net]

This photo is possibly a fake. But hasn't anyone heard of Mentos and Coke? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke_and_Mentos
Then use either a fast shutter speed or shoot in the dark and control with the flash.
--Rick

[dkord]

I believe it's shot upside down.

[fly my pretties]

Put the camera on it's side, pour the liquid out, take the shot, then rotate the canvas.

That's what I'd do.

[jemersonl83]

To me it doesnt look like a photograph, more like an illustration. If I was trying to reproduce it Jannies idea sounds best to me. Id use one flash against a white bg behind the can and another just off camera in front of the can.