Drop-Tank Fruit Beverage Shoot
In this live workshop, now available to watch as a replay, watch Karl and the team work with a drop tank to capture numerous shots of a beverage can along with various pieces of fruit.
The plan? To composite these shots together in a follow-up live post-production workshop.
You’ll learn about best practices for drop-tank work, including preparation, props and, most importantly, lighting.
As Karl works, he answers several questions from members, further demystifying key aspects of the process.
The studio gets somewhat soaked – but it’s worth it!
In this class:
- Drop-tank photography tips
- Lighting techniques for drop-tank photography
- Props and preparation for drop-tank photography
- Capturing images for compositing
To see Karl blend together his favourite shots from this session, watch Drop-Tank Fruit Beverage | Post-Production.
If you enjoyed this class, be sure to check out Perfect Product Tank Shots and Shooting Liquid Bubbles.
Questions? Please post them in the comments section below.
Comments
Hello Karl,
I have finally building my own broncolor kit gradually. In this video you have used two broncolor lights for background. Can you tell me which lights are those? I presume one of those is Broncolor Unilite? If Yes and the other one? Can you let me know all the details of the lights used please. Also advise if they are 1600 or 3200 joule lights each?
Hi, one of the background lights is a Unilite and the other is a Pulso G. There is no difference between them other than the Pulso G you can zoom the flash tube in and out a bit more, but no one ever uses that feature, most of my lights are unilites, all my lights (except Picolites) are 3200j capable because they plug into 3200J Scoro Packs so you can’t risk blowing them up by using a 1600J lamp head in a 3200J pack. But if you’re only using a 1600J pack then you only need 1600J lamp heads. The Picolites are 1600J only so I have to be careful not to go above power 8.9 if using them on a 3200J pack. Unilites is what I use for most work and Picolites for small detail stuff.
Karl, is the acrylic board necessary for things that are too light in weight to make an effective splash? I’m working on athletic supplement packages and the single serve packets are too light to “dive in” I’ve tried to mitigate with small fishing weights glued to the back. Just wondering if you’ve done splash with lightweight items?