Finally, I had set up my studio again. This is often just too much work for what I am planning, so I regularly adjust my plan so I don't have to build everything up. We had planned to try taking a splash photo as well. Funnily enough, the first photo with olives in a wine glass succeeded quite nicely. Thankfully, because after that, it all became tedious. Controlling my wife who dropped the olives and timing the photo with flash was impossible. The flash cannot give a burst, a series of short and fast flashes, so the photo had to be taken at exactly the right moment. So, then, without flash, with two lights and the camera on burst. Oh, yes, with a tomato you get a bigger splash! Behold the result! And then mopping everything up...
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…