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Here's a photo that has ben sitting on my computer for a little while now but I have yet to put up, like many of the photos I take. I was just messing around with the aquarium I acquired from my aunt and was trying to drop stuff in it to see what I could come up with, but I even't really have anything that I felt worthwile photographing falling into a pool of water. Everything seemed too light to actually sink when thrown into the aquarium, so I decided to take another approach. I grabbed this pill bottle from my room and decided I would throw in a little human interaction with it. this gave me pretty much all the control I needed. I could jam my hand into the water at whatever speed I wished and it was a lot more acurate than trying to throw an object and hoping that the placement in the frame was good. You can read as deeply or as shollow into this photo as you wish. I am not really going to explain that part of it much. I could give my take on it, but that might ruin someone elses opinion or view so I'll leave it up to your interpretation.

Technicalities: (sp?)

I had the camera mounted on a tripod with a timed shutter release and a long exposure.
The room was sealed off from all light so I was working pretty much in the pitch black.
There was black velvet as a backdrop to make it seem like there was no background at all.
the process for the shot was as follows:

I would trip the timed shutter and wait for it to fire. this left me with 2 free hand to work with the rest of the shoot.
in one hand I had a canon 580ex speedlight with my thumb on the test flash button. The flash was held pretty much directly above the water.
in the other hand I had the pill bottle still half full of the ibuprofens (yum yum yum)
once I heard the shutter click up, I jammed my hand into the water and tripped the flash at just that moment. and voila.

Photoshoppedness:
I didn't do much here.
I desaturated the photo and then adjusted the colour tempurature to something a little cooler
I then burnned in a few places to make it even moodier.

Thanks for viewing.

Description
Here's a photo that has ben sitting on my computer for a little while now but I have yet to put up, like many of the photos I take. I was just messing around with the aquarium I acquired from my aunt and was trying to drop stuff in it to see what I could come up with, but I even't really have anything that I felt worthwile photographing falling into a pool of water. Everything seemed too light to actually sink when thrown into the aquarium, so I decided to take another approach. I grabbed this pill bottle from my room and decided I would throw in a little human interaction with it. this gave me pretty much all the control I needed. I could jam my hand into the water at whatever speed I wished and it was a lot more acurate than trying to throw an object and hoping that the placement in the frame was good. You can read as deeply or as shollow into this photo as you wish. I am not really going to explain that part of it much. I could give my take on it, but that might ruin someone elses opinion or view so I'll leave it up to your interpretation.

Technicalities: (sp?)

I had the camera mounted on a tripod with a timed shutter release and a long exposure.
The room was sealed off from all light so I was working pretty much in the pitch black.
There was black velvet as a backdrop to make it seem like there was no background at all.
the process for the shot was as follows:

I would trip the timed shutter and wait for it to fire. this left me with 2 free hand to work with the rest of the shoot.
in one hand I had a canon 580ex speedlight with my thumb on the test flash button. The flash was held pretty much directly above the water.
in the other hand I had the pill bottle still half full of the ibuprofens (yum yum yum)
once I heard the shutter click up, I jammed my hand into the water and tripped the flash at just that moment. and voila.

Photoshoppedness:
I didn't do much here.
I desaturated the photo and then adjusted the colour tempurature to something a little cooler
I then burnned in a few places to make it even moodier.

Thanks for viewing.