Splash the tank Photography

okay so this is my setup you have the Canon 5d Mark for these 70 to 200 now I'm using an F 2.8 is 2 version because I don't have an f4 we got the trigger on the top which is the calendar we then have 2 flashes by the tank and I have a flash behind the tank behind that large piece of tracing paper so I'm yesterday's shot that I took which is this image here I use the elinchrom lb 400 high speed sync with a dark piece of card as the background and so that was a one flash setup today I'm using three flashes now these are just the Canon 600 RT plushies you can use any flashes that you may have at home so these work great so if your idea will be doing it this way is that more of you will probably have a few flash heads in your kit rather than a very expensive ELP elinchrom system so what I've done is I've set the flash at the back of the tracing paper to the widest zoom possible to fill up the background of the tracing paper and of the fishtank I have them place two flashes either side of the fishtank quite close but not touching the glass to fire the light through the tank so what we're gonna do is we'll do a test shot it will switch everything on and let's see what we're going to get on the back of the camera so this is what we have on the back of the camera so that's quite nice we've got nice circle of light there little light coming through now what we need to do is set up a focus point within this Hank the reason why I'm using the 70 to 200 and I'm quite far back from the actual fish tank is that I want the best depth of field I can get so I'm gonna be shooting that's around f-16 with ISO 200 now if that's going to be a little dark I'll stop it down to anything to f9 would work I don't want to go any lower than f9 just to ensure that I get as much of the shot in focus from front to back as possible all right let's get something to set up our focus point so as it happens I just happen to have a bottle of Prosecco so what I have to go see I'm actually placing this bottle against the back of the fish tank so the label is right in the middle of the fish tank there so what Manitou now is just zoom in and focus on the center of our bottle and obviously we using manual focus so we'll set up the manual focus and [Applause] [Music] and we're cleaning that a little bit so let's see men let's get that focus yeah I think that's just about and nearly yeah a little bit yep okay so we're now set up our focus a will touch the camera again as I'm going to be using the talent trigger so just using a little trigger just to fire it and we'll get that bottle Prosecco out and we'll start dropping out aftershave okay so let's start so we're gonna position bottle in the middle of the tank and we're gonna do a few shots first so one two and again okay okay so let's have a look our images okay so it was quite a good one first one for the next a little too soon and again not bad really close in there quite like the first one so what I'm looking at is my exposure being a little bit too bright there so what I'm going to do is just go into my setting so I'm shooting at the moment f9 sounds ok don't care about and change that to f/11 252nd iso 200 okay okay so we're shooting at f11 now and it should be a little bit darker so one two three just make sure you've got to stir the fishtank you don't want to be cracking the bottom of it let's just do another one late okay let's go take a look okay so those last images were just as bright and didn't really make that much difference so I've changed all my settings now and I'm now looking at shooting at f-16 at two thousandth of a second at ISO 100 so that's giving me a exposure like that so let's take another shot and see what we get okay so we can see that our light through the back is looking really good but I'm just not getting enough light through the sides now so what I'm going to do is just change the settings on top of here go to group a and just take that and I take it to the same power as the background and that should be bright enough [Music] okay so I've dropped my now stop down to f11 now we're still a little too dark I'm happy f11 so we're going to do another three test shots we should be right on the money now way too it may be a bit late on that one okay okay so let's have a look at our images [Music] so I think we have some decent ones in here [Music] [Music] and I think we can take these and to Photoshop has a bit darker point like that one always light it up a little bit you're saying with that one okay so let's it off to photoshop okay so welcome to a another video so what I'm going to do today is editing this image that we've just taken of the aftershave bottle falling into the fish tank and freezing the image not the greatest of images but it will do so I've opened it up in Lightroom and I'm going to go ahead and do some minor edits on the actual image a bit of exposure a bit of texture some cropping ready then to move that into Photoshop and I'll go on and edit it from there okay so let's go in and edit this image okay so first of all I'm just going to go in and crop this image okay to a size and airy that I like that will do really not happy about all these splashes at the back but we'll try and get rid of some of those okay so first of all I'm just going to use my exposure brush I'm literally just gonna paint over my image I just want to get rid of all this vignette hanging around the sides and it'll just help to get rid of some of the splashes as well so I'm just gonna make this one a little bit brighter let's just go in I'll go too near my muffle to build about the cause I mean this is just a way that means it get in here straight across here that's about it I'm to that reduce for brush and letters [Music] blend in to that I just want to see where this brush is I'm just gonna a raised aspect this brush that's fun about this one very gently I cross that line up it up okay so it's having a texture okay now we go to the bottle what I'm looking at here is just increasing the texture of the bubbles on the bottle and I want to increase some saturation just to pop the amber color a little bit of vibrance and as far as light shop goes that is all I am doing i no export this through to photoshop and will continue editing that okay so here we are back in Photoshop now I'm going to just use a couple of layers and I'm going to use a brush tool get rid of all these splashes and just enhance the image so let's get cracking so first of all I'm going to duplicate my layer in fact I should have made this window it's smaller so you can actually see what I'm doing here on the right hand side okay so duplicate this layer I'm going to give that Lehrer mask they want to add in a new layer so I put in a white I've grabbed it here okay and I got a mask to go to our brush tool I'll use a Wacom tablet just one of these and have to literally will go in and edit this image grid my Wacom tablet brush tool I'm going to come in to here and just get rid of all these little splashes up here start cleaning the image up [Music] it's a bit of a a long process this and cookies quite tricky so I'm gonna crack on with this and we'll come back and I'll see you in a few minutes okay so you can see now I have clean the image up a little bit it's looking a bit neater so what I want to do now is just come in to our label isn't the sharpest I have to say but there you go and our bottle cup and just clean these two items up so for this I'm going to use the spot removal tool pretty new layer we can start removing all these fine details now depending on how well you want your image to look you can either spend loads of time doing this or not I mean for the image is there already going on Facebook maybe depending on the final results in your portfolio but the thing reason why I tend to do it is because I know they're there and it will never look the same and let's go remove it so I'm going to crack on with these and I'll be back in a few minutes once I've finished up the spot removal tools on this image okay so we've done the touching up spot removal tool so we'll just zoom in a little bit and you can see I turn this layer off and turn it back on see the label the cap that's before and after so what I can see also is we've got a few flex within the bottle so I'm going to spend a little bit of time and clean these up as well so I'll get on with that Sallis before the others respond and after the spot removal tool so house clean this up quite a bit so now I'm happy with this photo and I'm just going to now run into a plug-in that I use quite a bit I use from fat to use an awful lot and it is called exposure software and it's currently exposure 5 that I will be using just to fine-tune this image to where I want to get it to before going to into exposure software I'm just going to merge these 3 layers together I'm quite happy I don't need to touch anything else on these I don't want to go back and edit this I need to enable that player so I'm just going to go layer merge layers which is just those 3 layers that were visible so now I can go into my filter an exposure software okay so here's my image in exposure software so a few things we want to go and do is perhaps look at my blue and yellows in exposure 5 we have these presets on the right hand side you have your exposures and your verticals and your highlights your blacks your weight whites your clarity's etc all those usual things you'd probably find in in Lightroom and this does a pretty good job to be honest with you similar to Lightroom so if you can't afford Lightroom or Photoshop you could do an awful lot just an exposure 5 it has some amazing features in it so what I'm going to do I want to go over to this preset here so you can see how the image changes once a mouse over the effect and the amber really pops out there so if I select this effect here on the right hand side we can see how much I want to apply that pre set so we can just bring the preset in so what I'm not liking about the preset is this area here it's just this dark area seems to be sort of making this look rather dirty so I'm going to bring it up to about 50% I'm then going to get my brush and I'm just going to rub away this area here so I can actually raise the preset from this selection yes so it actually has no effect on the image in those areas okay have a look yeah I wish that label was clear but never mind another picture another day so I'm just gonna sharpen this slightly so I can go up into this here sharpen radius so on these create a new layer first and I put that layer above the layer that I have erased otherwise it will not include the area here that I've erased so let's take 25% and then I'm going to reduce the amount down to about 60 on some look yeah I think I'm happy with that I'm just going to click apply that's going to take me back into Photoshop and a more or less finished with this image [Music] so what I always tend to do is well when you're working in Photoshop is we all tend to look at the image we've got this lovely image on a white background against this dark background but when we look at an image on Facebook and Instagram the entire area is white so what we need to do is have a look at our image on a white background so I go into my Photoshop area and just slick custom so now I can see that what my image is going to look like on a white background and that looks absolutely fine I'm happy with that it's just a image of so much shape falling into a fish tank if I was to do this again I would ensure that I did probably 200 takes of this image and not probably thirty that we did this morning to ensure that I got that label absolutely sharp and then select my image and go into all the editing and processing from there but hey we're done so I'm just going to finish off flatten my image just got all the layers and we're gonna file and and just say that this is saved as the TIFF I always export in TIFF when I'm doing images like this or really high-end portraits and wedding photography images that I'm using for portfolio is a print and then I'll just reduce the size of the image I would reduce it down to about two thousand eight hundred pixels drop on my logo put that down here others color overlay on that [Music] let's just go gray file save hours and I do tend to save them as a PNG Facebook and the internet for whatever reason seem to like PNG images especially when eating logos you exported a logo the JPEG logo and a JPEG and a PNG logo the PNG will always look ten times better okay guys that's it thank you very much for watching get yourself a fish tank start throwing some stuffing have a bit of fun and it just helps working on your editing process as well during the lockdown process stay well stay healthy get out get some exercise and get your camera's out enjoy

Channel: Ashley Barnard Photography

Views: 11,228

Keywords: photography, high speed photography, fishtank, flash photography, lightroom, photoshop, exposure 5

Id: ZwTTiMgSbSE

Length: 25min 17sec (1517 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 20 2020