Ice Cube Props - Posing Stools?

[Adaptive]

Anyone know where to get ice blocks like these? I post this in here because I'm sure some of you have these already! If not they looks great for photos!

This is not my photo, and yes I know it looks nice!
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/8/l_4886a64b657f4e7181f69cf5bafec649.jpg




Here is something similar but not quite as nice looking, and too pricey.
http://www.greatfakes.com/iceblocks/iceblocks.html

[M Powered]

Those can easily be photoshoped.

[Adaptive]

meh. yeah I guess you're right, but I'd like to try to do it the right way first.
If the the ice blocks cost more money that's fine, I'm not the one paying... heh

I'm not really one to rely on photoshop, not that I don't have the ability.
I just like to get it done in camera if possible... (more FUN time behind camera & less WORK time behind the computer)

[poloman]

http://www.partypop.com/categories/Ice_Dry_Ice/Philadelphia.htm

You can do the rest of the searching. You must not like google either. :)

[Adaptive]

http://www.partypop.com/categories/Ice_Dry_Ice/Philadelphia.htm

You can do the rest of the searching. You must not like google either. :)


Hehe I searched google for like almost 2 hours.
I didn't want to go the route of getting real ice blocks.
For some reason I can't see a model putting her bare a$$ on a frozen block of ice....

"You want me to do WHAT!?!!??"
"Hurry and get the shot, I'm freezing my A$$ OFF!!!"

:lol:

[jsanz11]

Those look like they were photoshopped...if not u'd probably have to get the real ones

[woodsters]

ask Justin Grant himself...

[Adaptive]

ask Justin Grant himself...


I already asked melinda and she said they are photoshopped

:lol:

Was just hoping there was a better way. :o

[woodsters]

Hey...can't get any cheaper than photoshopping...

[M Powered]

I already asked melinda and she said they are photoshopped

:lol:

Was just hoping there was a better way. :o

If you have ever worked with ice you would know photoshop is the best way.

Models + high heels + slippery wet ice = fail.

[Adaptive]

Hey...can't get any cheaper than photoshopping...


Paying client would be buying so I don't care.

And I would love to have them buy these props so I can have them for other shoots!! hehehe :lol:

Can't add the cost of photoshopped props to the invoice.
"Yeah the ice chairs were really there but you couldn't see them, cough up the money!" :lol:

[Adaptive]

If you have ever worked with ice you would know photoshop is the best way.

Models + high heels + slippery wet ice = fail.

Hence the reason I am looking for fake ice props (guess I should have specified that in the first post), not the real thing.
See my post above about what an impossible task it would be to get a model to SIT on a real block of ice.

[M Powered]

Can't add the cost of photoshopped props to the invoice.
"Yeah the ice chairs were really there but you couldn't see them, cough up the money!" :lol:


Sure you could. Post processing time is usually invoiced by the hour. i.e $65 per hr x 5 hr per ice cube :p

[woodsters]

If you have ever worked with ice you would know photoshop is the best way.

Models + high heels + slippery wet ice = fail.


Yeah hate to think of their butts stuck to the ice too....lol

[woodsters]

Paying client would be buying so I don't care.

And I would love to have them buy these props so I can have them for other shoots!! hehehe :lol:

Can't add the cost of photoshopped props to the invoice.
"Yeah the ice chairs were really there but you couldn't see them, cough up the money!" :lol:


Well if the client is buying, who cares about the price!?

[Adaptive]

Well if the client is buying, who cares about the price!?


:lol: my thoughts exactly

[Adaptive]

Yeah hate to think of their butts stuck to the ice too....lol


Yeah not only butts...
I was thinking about that christmas classic where the boy wants a BB gun for xmas and everyone says "you'll shoot your eye out kid".
Remember the part where he gets his tongue stuck to the frozen pole... Only for half naked girls sitting on the ice block they might have another problem... well I'll just leave it at that.... :lol:

[bsmotril]

Any good plastics fabrication shop would be able to build these easily. If you don't see any listings for plastic fabrication, go to a real sign shop. They have the capability to this kind of work. By "Real" sign shop, I mean one that goes beyond cutting out magnetized vinyl or printing banners.

[Adaptive]

Any good plastics fabrication shop would be able to build these easily. If you don't see any listings for plastic fabrication, go to a real sign shop. They have the capability to this kind of work. By "Real" sign shop, I mean one that goes beyond cutting out magnetized vinyl or printing banners.

Thanks for the new google search words.
I'm searching now.... :eek:

[Killjoy]

It's out there.

After two minutes of looking here (http://www.rplastics.com/blockicemed.html) are some 6 inch blocks.

Here (http://www.eplastics.com/Plastic/Fake_Plastic_Ice/ICE-BLOCK-MED;jsessionid=0a0101431f43c5914f58074a4e829ad5914 1c14ee9fd.e3eTax4KaN0Le34Pa38Ta38Nah90) is another. Not sure of the size of this one, but you could always call them.

I'm sure there are bigger ones out there. I guess you just need to try different things in your search bar.

[TooManyHobbies]

There was a lot of apparent photoshopping in that pic. I've seen acrylic blocks for sale a long time ago but they were super expensive. And no actual cube is going to look like that.

Do you want to know how to do it in PS?

[poloman]

I worked for many years building exhibits. The cost of having them fabricated would be prohibitive. I don't know of any existing in that size, though someone might have them. You might look under stage props. I think I would buy a large block of real ice, chop it a bit to get a look I liked and shoot it under the same lighting I used for the models. Best of both worlds. Then just photoshop it in.

[Kittygraphix]

I was going to suggest finding some thick plexiglass or something along those lines although those plastic ones don't look all that bad.

[Bobster]

i'd go with transparent plastics and photoshop the frost in

i'm $120 an hour but charge by the quarter of the hour, so if it takes me 37 minutes to do, you're only billed for 45 minutes not the full hour ;)

[themirage]

http://www.amode.co.uk/acatalog/Ice_Cube_Glass_Desk_Table.html

[poloman]

Maybe these people can make you some.
http://barnardltd.com/contact.jsp

[ngorkngork]

maybe you can try to shoot some ice cubes. and do composite in PS. save the girls ass. I think the fake ice cubes they mentioned will be great.

[M_ark]

I say do both, (if you haven't completed the project already)
buy the ice, set it inplace, shoot the ice with the lights the way you want, insert same height stool, model poses, shoot, replace stool with ice in photoshop. alternately, put some light coloured insulating material (such as a 1/2" polystyrene sheet) ontop of the ice to save the models butt from freezing.

[smillymike]

I am located in Quebec and I saw acrylic cube but not as this. You can find it at a point of purchase company who manufacture block for store displays.
Or if you want, you can ask to custom made it. Many plastic shop are able to do it.
Good luck (sorry for my english )