Wine

[focalintent]

Repeated exposures and printings and re-framings - 10 in all.

This was more of a proof of concept project than anything else. If anything, one thing I learned out of it is to be very careful with color corrections I make before each printing - because they will only get compounded over time - hence the increasingly bluish tint the further into the image you get.

Still though, I like the result (and i've decided to leave the whole setup in my kitchen - not just the framed print, for now : ) and have plans that are grander and more nefarious. Now to find, amongst other thing, a very, very patient model.

In all, it took me about 4 hours to do. One hour to get the original scene set up and the lighting set up the way i wanted it. I still think it could use some work - there's some shadowing going on that I would have liked to have not had there. (I punted on continuing to mess with it in favor of going on with the rest of the project).

Then it was roughly 3 hours of "shoot, download, adjust, crop, print, re-frame" - and took about 15-20 minutes for each round. I imagine that when I do this with larger prints my cycle time is going to be even higher - which means no natural light (or doing this X days in a row at roughly the same time of day) - and also probably means a preference for patient subjects.

The camera was the Canon 5d, the lens was the 50mm f/1.8 'plastic fantastic'. I had two flashes in soft boxes off to each side and one flash reflected in an umbrella above everything pointing down at a roughly 60 degree angle. The prints were made on an Epson r220 with photo glossy paper. The frame is a simple Ikea frame.

Comments

[adania.livejournal.com]

Neat!!

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Thanks! : )

[cuthalion.livejournal.com]

It would be better with a model because things would be slightly different in each shot and it would look less like a photoshop thing.

[devina.livejournal.com]

Or let the candle burn during the whole process, if that wouldn't mess with the lighting.

[spike.livejournal.com]

Or change just one small thing in each shot: angle of the bottle, position of the corkscrew, lipstick on the glass -- tell a story!

[sol3.livejournal.com]

The plan for v2 of this specific shot involved doing things like changing the amount of liquid in hte bottle and in one of the glasses. Only, I want to do it in such a way so that in each -inner- picture, the bottle is more empty and the glass less full : )

[goat.livejournal.com]

I wonder if some sort of pipette would be good for this...make sure it fits into the wine bottle, suck up some of the wine from both bottle and glass and deposit it elsewhere (perhaps in your belly?)....that way you don't actually have to move the bottle or glass , which might change the composition too much.

[threadwalker.livejournal.com]

good idea

[tcb.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing..

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Alas, I did some test shots with the candle burning and they didn't work terribly well : /

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Yup - that's the eventual plan - but I wanted to fool around with it before I made someone hang around for 6 hours to get it done. I already have a rough idea for what I want to do next though, involving a model type person! : )

[inaxismundi.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful!

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tcb.livejournal.com]

very nice! towards the end of my photography week I started creating images, rather than simply taking them, and that opened up a whole new world..

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Nice! I definitely very much enjoy setting up and shooting 'scenes' - it's how i ended up with this set. Now to get better at doing it with people in in other places : )

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

In the old days, we woulda done that with Photoshop.

[sol3.livejournal.com]

The funny thing? I don't think I would have had the patience. And yah - while this particular shot would be easier done in photoshop because it's static from frame to frame, once I start adding changes from frame to frame, then the photoshop thing becomes less convenient.

(To be fair, I did do some image cleanup of the 10th image in photoshop - removing dust spots, shifting the angle a slight bit, etc... : )

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I don't think I would have had the patience

Me neither! Which is weird, but hey. I sympathize.

[goat.livejournal.com]

Arg...I so wish you were here so I could talk art with you! Maybe I'll get Ted to photograph my collages nicely and put them online, because I worked with repetition as well, and it really worked.

I like this pic! It took me a while to figure it out.

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Nice. I'm a big fan of repetition and recursion as well. I see this as the photo equivalent of the video feedback games I had played with.

I think you're going to like some of what I want to do next, spinning off of this idea, though : )

I like this pic! It took me a while to figure it out.

Thanks!

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Thank you! : )

[threadwalker.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Much like!

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm especially looking forward to round II, now : )

(Is it cheesy that i've left the whole arrangement set up on my counter? I.e. the wine bottle, glasses, candle, and opener are all still there placed beneath the framed shot : )

[buteo-falco.livejournal.com]

Not at all. Many table top setups I have done have been left set up just because the light and the set up was to cool to just shoot and break down. As Photographers we have to shoot it, but it is the original beauty that captured us and it almost never captures us the same just in the image.

[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

good shot.

[fampirefly.livejournal.com]

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