Under Water Photography?
I have been obsessed with studio/product/dramatic photography! There is just a bunch of creative photos I can be taking and I am definitely trying to take them
So remember last post, I took this shot of water pouring into a glass? Well I got really inspired from that and wanted to stick to the water theme! So I was scrolling the YouTubes and I found this video by Peter McKinnon! (and by found, I mean I searched for it specifically because I love him and he’s my favorite photographer!) And the video was all about underwater product photography! So I thought perfect!
Basically what I did was I found a fish tank Walmart for $10. Total steal! And then the ideas came flowing! I filled it up half way and lite it really well! The thing is, when I was dropping things, I had to make sure my shutter speed was super high so I could capture the moment perfectly. I have a Canon 1dx mark ii so that really helped because it can shoot 16 photos a second! But I still have to make sure that shutter is fast to capture the moment without any motion blur! So I set my shutter but there wasn’t a lot of light so I had to raise my ISO to 3200 which I wasn’t too worried about. But next I had to bump up the aputure because I wanted more to be in focus incase I missed things. So I had my aperture at 5.6!
But how the heck am I supposed to get enough light when its super dark like that? A big A lighting source!
I set up my Aputure 300x as close as I could to the fishtanks and blasted the light! Then all that was left to do was drop things into the water! I found an old stop watch, a watch, and a old film camera that was broken! Perfect!
Okay enough talk! Time to see the photos! Let me know what you think!
with love- Husain!
