Comments on: Project Paint Pour

By: Chris Decker

Chris Decker — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:26:57 +0000

Thank you so much for the article, it really helped solidify some questions I had before I try this out for myself. If you’re interested I wanted to share with you a video on youtube by the designer Alberto Seveso. In case you haven’t seen it already he uses an interesting method in order to blend the two colors together. . Thanks again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2kVgChHU4

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:25:23 +0000

Thanks so much for getting back to me. I’ll try it with some straight lighting as well as the flash. I’ll send ya a link with any luck I have.

By: Guy Rhodes

Guy Rhodes — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:21:09 +0000

I actually used 2 small Vivitar 285 flashes to light these in addition to the Elinchrom strobe, so depending on your ISO and aperture settings, you might be able to bounce your speedlight off a white card behind the tank to achieve that blown out white look behind the paint. Alternately, you could try using continuous lights to light this, but they’d have to be pretty bright to get the shutter speeds needed (around 1/500th would be my starting point) to freeze the paint when it first enters the water – it moves quick.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:05:56 +0000

These are amazing and I can’t wait to try it later tonight.
Any tips for someone who doesn’t have strobes? I have a nikon 600 speedlight, the tank, but no strobes.

Thanks!!!