Orange Juice Splash
Discover the exciting world of high-speed splash photography by creating a vibrant orange juice splash image using just speedlights. You’ll learn how to build the set, freeze motion with flash, time your shots, and capture dynamic liquid movement. Along the way, you’ll pick up practical tips for minimizing mess, controlling reflections, and producing striking commercial-style beverage photography.
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If you haven’t got the frosted acrylic for the background (and have spent far to much on photo kit so far this year!) can you instead just have a plain background and shine a light on it? I know it will look different but trying to think of a work around without buying anything at all.
Hi, yes of course that is another way of doing it and it’s one you will see me use in other classes, often with a tight honey comb grid to make the spotlight on a white background. Also if you have a roll of diffussion paper then you can use that instead of the frosted acrylic.
Hello, dear Karl and team. Thank you very much for the video. May I ask for German subtitles?
Hi Karl, A great series, thank you.
What thickness do you use for your Perspex? For the base 5mm and for the frost backgrounds 3mm? Is it better to get a Clear or Opal Frost at 3mm and use gels for different colours?
Thanks again
Graham
Hi Graham, the list is endless and I’ve got all sorts but for the base I use solid opal gloss or solid matt depending on whether I want a reflection or not, it doesn’t really matter if it’s 3mm or 5mm for the base as it’s laying on something solid and white anyway. For diff panels I use 5mm opal as it’s stiffer but it’s gloss so it’s not good as a background/glow for that I use matt frosted in 5mm. Yes gels for different colours but I do find that matt frosted runs a bit bluer anyway.
Awesome Karl, thank you for keeping me right, as it save me money from buying the wrong stuff..
I’m in the US and I can’t say I’ve heard of acrylic sheets referred to as Makrolon. I’ve only heard them called acrylic or plexiglass. They are listed on US Amazon as acrylic sheets and plexiglass in every listing I can find.
Hi, thanks for the info on that, that’s useful. I just looked it up and it seems Makralon is a brand of acrylic sheets but I’ve definitely heard the term ‘plexiglass’ so I will use that going forward for our US audience.