Pouring liquids

Pouring water in a bucket of water is harder then it looks, end of story.

This shot is for my food photography class in which we the directions were simple, illustrate liquid pouring, it could be a splash, or simple as pouring milk into a cup with some cookies. for this assignment though, I wanted to make it more my style then the general "food style" (and by the way, if you want to see some amazing food photography, check out my friend Anna's website http://www.annarossphotography.com/ ). I feel my style is more graphic, and hard edge (because of the lighting that i like) then the average food shot, sooo for the past assignments I've gone by the book, and now its getting boring, now its about what I like more, and I like this more then the shot i did of milk pouring into a mug with cookies scattered around.

For the water I used the same lighting technique that I would use to get black line as i would with glass. The interesting thing about water is that although its nothing like glass, lighting properties, I feel, are all the same. The reflectiveness, the shiny, and the elegant feel you get from the two things are almost identical in my mind. Along with my lighting set up for the black line edge, I gelled the background lights for the color, and also individually gelled the water a bluish color. Hello color, i love you.

Also, if you haven't checked out my website yet, I just reupdated it (again) 10 minuets ago!! http://www.jessdavisphoto.com go check it out!!!

On a side, and completely not related note, I am in love with The Flaming Lips, if you don't know them, check them out because they're amazing, and you probably already know some of their songs, one of their songs " do you realize?" was in a car commercial a couple of years ago