Studio Texture Shot
A 'texture' shot, the whole point of the shot is the condensation.
Getting this right was harder than I anticipated, I put
a few beers in the fridge overnight and thought that the
condensation would just form naturally when I put them under
the hot lights. Well, all that happened was the cans looked
dull, the droplets of condensation were too small to be
seen.
With my rudimentary knowledge of science I figured that the difference
in temperature needed to be greater so I put the cans in the freezer
and put the fire in the room up to full blast. Sometime later I
tried again but still could not get nice looking droplets.
Next I tried boiling the kettle nearby and warming the can with
steam. This seemed to improve matters a little but the trouble was,
the kettle kept switching itself off. So finally I had to stand
there with the kettle in my hand holding the switch in and strafing
the can with steam. Finally I got the nice large droplets that you
see inthe picture.
I like the gradation of light around the can, the way it goes almost
to black but not quite.
The objects you can see at the bottom of the picture are lumps
of coal.
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