A few friends and myself have been kicking around the idea of doing a short stop motion clip and series of photos using motion frozen liquids in composite images. Still very early in the planning and trail tests before attempting something like this, but I thought I would throw the idea out to fish for suggestions and see if anyone else wants to give it a shot as well.
I'm sure most people have seen it, using thrown liquids and freezing their motion with high speed flash to do things like making it appear that a model is wearing clothes made of liquid. Has a very cool motion to the images. I want to call it fluid, but that is a very bad pun.
Main concept goal will be to produce two "Angelic/Demonic Warriors" Growing wings and attacking. I figure if I can reliably get each piece of the wing formations (And possibly their weapon out of water as well) in one or two shots, then in a solid night of work I should be able to get enough material to produce maybe 5 seconds. So, short battle.
Right now I am still working on early setup and concept that will lead to the final project, possibly sometime next spring. Good chance I will be stuck having to do this outside some night due to lack of access to a studio like space where I can safely toss piles of water around. Winter is kind of coming along rather quickly in my part of the world, and I think having the subjects bundled up in parkas and such will kind of ruin the effect I'm really going for.
Current plan for the first effect trial will be using plain pure water, and colour gels on speed lights to throw extra effects. Likely going to go with "Blazing White" for the angelic, and an orangey-red fire like effect for the demon. I originally thought black and white, but so far I have not come up with a reliable scheme to get a good black effect easily without using thickened tinted water.
Thoughts, suggestions, or comments? If I have time this weekend I may get a few test shots done, and then begin a proper blog to document my experiments.
It is all about the fun, learning, and spending time with some friends really.
