How do you do that?
I still haven't quite got around to making full tutorials yet but heres a few pictures with descriptions of how I made them and a couple of post production timelapse videos.
Composite Workflow
A timelapse of the work involved in piecing a composite photo together
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This is me shooting a pint of lager with an air rifle. I probably spent more time setting this up than any other shot. I used an audio trigger which fired a couple of flashes upon the sound of the gun firing. I practiced for a long time by shooting plastic cups, the timing was very hard to get right and I only had one glass. Its one of those times i had my heart in my mouth going for the shot but then danced around when seeing the result!
http://www.phototrigger.co.uk/
Milk Saucer
This is a milk drop collision. This happens when a drop of milk enters a cup of milk, the drop then rebounds upwards and collides with another drop coming down. The timing for these is critical and I use a kit called SplashArt.
http://www.phototrigger.co.uk/
This all happens far too fast for even a camera so the shot is taken in near darkness, the kits fires a few speedlights to capture the action, its about 1/10,000th of a second.
This is a few layers blended. First I took a shot of the car with the lights on, then I used a Maglight with a white card reflector and walked past the car a few times to get those shiney lines, after that I went around the back of the car waving around a colour changing light wand to make the coloured ribbons. Once all the photography was done I layered all the frames in Photoshop and set the blending to 'lighten'.
For this shot I walked into the frame and 'drew' around the bench with a Lenser V24 light wand. Again, it was pretty dark and I was dressed in black so the camera wouldn't pick me up, I wasn't quick enough though and if you look closely above the bench it looks a little smudged, thats me...
Here I walked around the digger lighting various parts with a torch and coloured gels, the 'fire' on the wheels was made with an LED lightstick.
This exposure was about 5 mins long and it was really dark, thats why you don't see me in the frame although I was walking around in it quite alot.
The firey sparks here are made by spinning burning wire wool, you can find out more about that here;
http://photoextremist.com/steel-wool-photography-tutorial
The coloured lines on the ground were made with a coloured torch and the blue 'orb' was made by spinning a light in a vertical circle while walking around in a horizontal circle. heres a vid;
http://vimeo.com/21438228
