As adults, we often forget about what we were able to achieve as children through play. We learnt, we experimented, we laughed, we relaxed and we weren’t afraid to fail when trying something new.
Photography is one medium that can allow you to play again, it certainly encourages me to play, get messy and experiment with ideas.
One great way to do this is with liquid photography, trying to capture various liquids being moved in different ways creates images that not only can we not see with our eyes, but creates organic shapes that can never be replicated in exactly the same way again.
Recently I went into the studio to capture water splashes in various types of glasses to see the differences glass shape can have on the results.
I used 2 lights in strip boxes through my homemade scrims on either side of the glass. The background was the black side of a v-flat and the glass rested on a smokey black piece of glass from Ikea.
To create the splashes I used some acrylic ice cubes I purchased from The Set Shop in NYC on my trip there last April.
From here is was just a matter of dropping the ice cubes into the glass of water repeatedly and using a remote trigger to fire the camera manually.
