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Just a fun shot.

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mohsen etemadifar 6 days ago

this is Amazing+ Dave !

bukipropovednika 1 month ago

Fantastic photo & album

Roland Shainidze 1 month ago

I know this picture was cover for one of the 1x's book... Fantastic work!

Martin Jørgensen 5 months ago

just a fun shot, that ended up on the front on the 2010 book, nice. :D

Niloufar Hosein zadeh 9 months ago

Hey Dave . On time shot . Enjoyed from many of your photos & ideas .All of them were amazing . Good luck .

nicol 9 months ago

perfect

Roman_tik 11 months ago

very nice.

Louka Pics Photography 11 months ago

This photo really does deserve its place on the front of the 1x photo-book.
It's amazing, Congratulations on your Talent !! :D

Hector Guerra Hernandez 12 months ago

Impressive work.....!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kusoglu Ali 1 year ago

Wow...
EXCELLENT...

Ricardo Boa 1 year ago

Just a perfect shot.

Ashraf Saleh 1 year ago

A signiature conceptual shot. Well done.

Arash Nasiri 1 year ago

nice !

Alessio Buonfigli 1 year ago

fantastic shoot. fantastic colour. fantastic.

Marie Carlsson Ramirez 1 year ago

Great shoot from you! Brilliant tecnics.

Morteza Motlagh 1 year ago

WoW!!! you are fantastic Dave :)

Dmitry Laudin 1 year ago

great!

jemmy oentu 1 year ago

nice freeze,brilliant shoot,great work!...regards...JO

Santosh Kudtarkar 1 year ago

Liked it... and many of your replies :)

tchebytchev 1 year ago

oh yeah..great work my friend ! great work !

andreas612 1 year ago

cover photo, congrats! very cool photo!

Aziz Abbasi 1 year ago

Creative, ..

Nuria Segura 2 years ago

amazing!!
fantastic work

Ejtaan 2 years ago

Gesundheit!

Love this!

Luca Finamore 2 years ago

fantastic work

Pierre Pageau 2 years ago

félicitations .*****

Sergio Ramari 2 years ago

Fantastic photo & album .... great !!!

Sergio Ramari 2 years ago

Fantastic photo & album .... great !!!

Eitan Vaxman 2 years ago

WOW and WOW and another WOW,
Wxcellent work, I can feel the glass broken. great job.

Ratko Nedovic 2 years ago

The broken glass and so clear "bloody" droplet give this photography unique look. Superb.

fabio ferrazzi 2 years ago

Is a good idea

agni 2 years ago

great crack!!!!!

Lee Nelson 2 years ago

It's hard to choose from so many works...
The laff from this made my choice though.
Fun is right....

fazlur 2 years ago

Brilliant shot!

robbin reumer 2 years ago

Hey Dave, nothing more to say, great concept from a creative soul. Oh, one thing; I see a few spots; one in the left upper corner and a few in the dark part (below/left). Maybe a dust-spot; it ain't liquid, hahah.... With a few seconds of postprocessing it's gone with the wind, thanks 4 inspiring and keep on shooting. Greetingz from the Netherlands, robbin

Leszek Paradowski 2 years ago

I like this piece very much.

ferry kana 2 years ago

it's really a great work that comes from great idea and fresh mind :)

dedey sugiarto 2 years ago

very beautiful freeze... i like this.. good work!!

Cheron 2 years ago

Great work !
Stunning !

Zeeg 2 years ago

Impressive pic considering the technical mastering, and the artistic result. Thanks also for sharing your technical explanations !

Norbert Maier 2 years ago

Brilliant shot!

sasson haviv 2 years ago

a real fun shot :) great !!! and thank you for the explanation, it is greatly appreciated.

Pocket Universe 2 years ago

I love the creativity of this shot, for me it's also very much a learning experience to read all the comments where you explain how you achieved the shot.

Anna Lepke 2 years ago

Never stop surprising me.

You are good and your shots amazing!

Romanas N. 2 years ago

Nicely done. I've got a task right now, given by my composition lecturer, and have to do something similar (static to dynamic from one of E. Monet's still-life). Wonder what did you use as the background? My gear aint that good, I've only got one flash at my disposal, wonder if it'll work. Any advice?

Dave Nitsche I used a Smith Victor shooting stage for this one. It's white plexi so I can put flashes behind and below it. IT softens the light wonderfully. One flash is going to be tough for this kind of shooting. Turning the power down on the flash to get the duration quick enough to stop the motion really lowers the output. There probably wouldn't be enough light to capture a shot with just 1. :(

Romanas N. I imagined it so. Then I'm in a tough situation here. See, my equipment is minimal - got a D80 I'm gonna shoot with, a D40 and an SB-400 that can only be triggered while on the camera that's shooting. So what do I do - I put it on the D40 (without a lens so as to not cast any shadows) as it gets a manual mode with it - I can set it's power down to 1/128 (though that's far from being enough), I put it behind the diffuser/background (white sheet of paper), open the shutter (bulb) on my D80 and fire off the D40. That's about it. :)
Problematic even though I don't need the perfect quality we can observe in your shot.

Dave Nitsche All I can suggest is: Try putting it on 1/16th power and see what you can get. Sometimes a bit of motion blur isn't a bad thing in the correct setting. If too much ratchet down to 1/32nd and so on. You don't need 1/128th power unless you're trying to stop a bullet or a hummingbirds wings in mid flight.

Romanas N. I made a few tries. 1/32 worked ok, I guess, or good enough for my task. Now the glass looked decent, not too dark (plus some tweaking with raw software, it could look even good). Haven't tried water yet, will if there's time - got other tasks to do as well - but what bothers me is that I'll need to use a less transparent object there too, and as I've only got one crappy (for such work) flash at my disposal, I won't be able to fill in enough light so that the object, in this case a flower, doesn't look too dark or even a simple silhouette. Putting a white sheet of paper as a reflector doesn't do much good, or frankly - it does nothing. Any ideas? :)
I find this quite entertaining, though somewhat stressing too - I'll get a mark for this. A kind of a puzzle, how to make the most with the crappyest gear one has.
Appreciate your help greatly - I understand that this place isn't exactly right for lessons of this kind, so if it bothers you, we can move it somewhere else. If you will be so kind to help me at all, that is. :)

Dave Nitsche No problem commenting here. Others seem to appreciate the banter... Gear limitations are always a problem. What if you fired the flash twice or as many times as you need with a longer exposure? That's the way my 7 sin series was done. Dark room, 30 second exposure and one flash in each hand. I walked around the room and manually fired the flashes bouncing them off walls and the ceiling. It might work for you or at least give you other ideas.

Romanas N. Well, that could be a solution - I'll try it in a couple of hours after I'm done with all the other work. But I face a problem here.
See, my task is to turn (or in other words - remake) a chosen static composition (in my case it's one of E. Monet's still-life works) into a dynamic one. So, if I do as you suggest, I can't see a way to make it dynamic as it would be if I had more gear - things are bound to change in between the flash bursts: the water flow will change, the flower will be in a different place somewhere.
I'll try - maybe it'll make the work look better, add even more action. I certainly hope so.
Thanks a lot. If theres anything else you can suggest, I'll greatly appreciate any advice.

jaroslav pavlicek 2 years ago

great!

Dave Nitsche Thanks

Zufar Ismail Zeid 2 years ago

... Apart from being stunned for a minute just staring at the photo, I'm wondering... Did you... uh... Shoot the glass?

Dave Nitsche Nope, the glass already had the hole in it from another shot I did. I just poured the liquid in and this is what I got. Thanks

yuan 2 years ago

nice concept... well done..salam senyum -u1-

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Richard Ford 2 years ago

Is this at 1/60 second?

Dave Nitsche Hey Richard... possibly. I had 4 flashes set to 1/64th power. It's flash duration that stops action in these types of shots, not shutter speed. At a 64th power the flash duration is about a 20,000th of a second (if my math is correct). So as long as I'm in a dark room (there was some ambient light but not enough to effect anything) its the flashes stopping the motion.

Richard Ford For sure - didn't think of that. For the background effect did you have some kind of cookie?

Dave Nitsche I shoot on a white plexiglass shooting stage and have one flash behind with a Honl grid and blue gel attached. I have 1 flash underneath it with a blue gel also. I have 2 other flashes on the sides with barn doors to keep them from affecting the back ground color so I'm isolating the subject. I 'think' that's what I had on this shot.

Semir 2 years ago

wow.. great

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anicolas 2 years ago

superb

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Ben Goossens 2 years ago

Love it:-)
Masterly done.

Dave Nitsche Hey Ben... hope you're well my friend. Thanks so much. I always smile when I see a comment from you.

gerard sexton 2 years ago

Brilliant as usual!

Dave Nitsche Thanks Gerard!!!

Stoyan Tashev 2 years ago

love the light around the glass

Dave Nitsche Thanks so much

Josif Raspopovic 2 years ago

Awesome!

Dave Nitsche Thanks Josif

Tshuvi Kuba 2 years ago

excellent shot,great concept! well done!

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storytaylor 2 years ago

superb work.

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Eric Javier 2 years ago

This is too much for a fun shoot,,,AWESOME man

Dave Nitsche Thanks Eric

limawhisky 2 years ago

brilliant concept! congrats,- Unggul LW

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piri 2 years ago

This looks perfect.
Awesome shot. Great light.

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Carola Lundmark 2 years ago

Cool! Perfect light.
~ Carola ~

Dave Nitsche Thanks Carola. :-)

wbliauw 2 years ago

nice idea!

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ninamarie8253 2 years ago

Awesome!

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Phyllis Clarke 2 years ago

Amazed by what you were able to show with only two colors! It is not just a fun shot - it is also so technically intimidating. :)))) My best Phyllis

Dave Nitsche Hey Phyllis, thahnks!!!

Fulvio Pellegrini 2 years ago

great!!
F.

Dave Nitsche Thanks Fulvio

Monique 2 years ago

i can't find more proper word than just "Wow"
This is excellent!

Dave Nitsche Thanks Monique

Earl A. Jones 2 years ago

Very cool Dave! :)

Dave Nitsche Thanks Earl

Morkel Erasmus 2 years ago

saw your stuff on an email link to the Telegraph website.
amazing - this is sweet!

Dave Nitsche Thanks so much

Pieter Ale de Boer 2 years ago

What did you do? Shot the glass? ;)
Nice shot man!

Dave Nitsche No, it was a broken glass I had laying around. I just poured the liquid into it and clicked. Just a lucky catch really. Thanks

Jean-Pierre Sepchat 2 years ago

I voted for your photo, and i'm happy to find it there ! Bravo §
Jean-Pierre

Dave Nitsche Thanks for the vote Jean-Pierre!!!

Helle Lorenzen 2 years ago

Amazing shot.

Dave Nitsche Thanks Helle

Jeannette Oerlemans 2 years ago

Yes! He is here! Great!!

Dave Nitsche Yup, I'm here. LOL... thanks Jeannette

Jeannette Oerlemans Ow! Ow I make the same mistake with another member! Hahaha .. I say it, I mean the picture! Hahahaha .. Yesterday I said, I love him! Hahahaha .... It was a self portrait! Ones I learn Englisch!