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 07/27/2006 05:46:02 AM · #1
Mark Laita has been a favorite of mine ever since I've seen his work.

I've always been wondering how he does shots like these:

MGD
Estee Lauder
Ipsa
Baileys

Who can fill me in?
 07/27/2006 06:08:13 AM · #2
Thanks for sharing the link... he has some pretty damn nice work on his site!
 07/27/2006 06:09:24 AM · #3
This guy is good splash photographer!
But remember you are seeing the final post processed pictures, that to this type of work, tend to be very changed from original.

To make big things like those, you need to be patient and keep trying a lot.

The more easy picture here is the MGD. A simple water blade in a translucent recipient with a powerfull back light. Throw the bottle from one side to other and be quick to release your camera in high shutter speed (thanks to that hugue background light. An assistant will be welcome.
 07/27/2006 06:12:51 AM · #4
I am pretty sure I know how he did all of those.

I am going to try and recreate them myself, to an amateurish level.

I'll try and explain how I believe he did them all tomorrow, right now, I must sleep.

-Hideo
 07/27/2006 06:17:40 AM · #5
@ Mike: very welcome!

@ Goodend: I know there has been a lot of pp, but the basics are more important to me ;-) If I have the time and patience, I'll try a splash-bottle! Thanx for explaining.

@ redsun: very curious for your results

I have one other option. Could this be "fake"? For example: Creating the baileys from plastic or something like that, and the icecubes from glass?
 07/27/2006 06:38:51 AM · #6
Originally posted by biteme:

I have one other option. Could this be "fake"? For example: Creating the baileys from plastic or something like that, and the icecubes from glass?

Certainly possible, though the Bailey's is probably real. Well not "real - real", but a mixture of a colored liquid to resemble it, with a different viscosity. Kinda' like they do for cereal commercial slo-mo videos and stills. It's a misture of water and Elmer's glue or something like that.
 07/27/2006 06:51:40 AM · #7
then I bet he has great patience.. and lotsa time to create an image like this :)


07/27/2006 07:18:23 AM · #8
Originally posted by biteme:
then I bet he has great patience.. and lotsa time to create an image like this :)


a lot of patience and probably and endless supply of whatever he is shooting!! Just think of how much Baileys he went through to get that shot!
 07/27/2006 07:38:06 AM · #9
mmm .. bailey's... i wanna fix me one
 07/27/2006 09:01:21 AM · #10
It's likely a combination of images from a lot of shooting.
 07/27/2006 06:23:34 PM · #11
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 07/27/2006 07:01:44 PM · #12
Okay I have some very poor results in emulating him, but I am mostly sure I have them all.

MGD
I think this one is simply attaching the bottle to a rod of some kind in the back, something secured well, and it is sticking through the backround and held up that way. Pretty common practice for a setup shot.

And after than, simply shooting a hose towards the bottle and trying varying thicknesses of hose, and shooting when the water first hits. You can make the water "wave" before it breaks up simply by moving your hose up and down. I had very poor results. They work, though. It'd look better if I had a plain white backround to use outside, but the general look is right. I will look into setting up some studio stuff outside and see if I can more accurately mimick it.

Estee Lauder
This one is harder, I don't know if it's the way he did it, but what I did was just filled a container with tinted paint, set my camera on remote, and threw the container with a little spin on it. It took a few tries (messy one) to get it right, but it works. Whether or not he did it that way or not I don't know, but you can copy it that way if you don't mind making a huge mess. Might substitute tinted yogurt mixed with a bit of milk, also. I will try this one later as well with my assistant.

Ipsa
This one is photoshop heavy. Easy to emulate really, just put your thumb softly over the end of a hose until it gets roughly the same spread spray pattern. It wasn't that tough. Would need a white backround, than add blue to the water. Photoshop in the bottle with the water as the top layer, and set opacity selectively. I didn't both trying this one because I know it would take forever to get right.

And the Baileys is probably just a fast shutterspeed with fake product. Tinted watered down yogurt or paint to get the creamy consistency.

Of course, figuring out ways to do it is the easy part. Actually doing it and making it LOOK good is another, much harder step.

He may have done something entirely different, too. These are just my ideas of how it was done.

-Hideo
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