Photo Projects!

Lets stay inside to stay warm for this project.

This is a variation on the water drops. You are going to need some water base paint, for easy clean up. Two large white ceramic tiles. They are easy to clean also. A eyedropper to drop the paint on the tile. A flash to stop the motion of the paint splatter. 

Here is the setup angle one of the tiles against a backdrop. Use the other tile flat right in front of the angled tile to make kind of a seamless backdrop. Mount your flash and your eyedropper above the tile. Try to keep the eyedropper in the same spot every time to get the best results.

Use a small bowl to mix the paint with some water. The paint needs to be thinned out to create a better splash. Use very colorful paint also help improve your images. To find the focus go ahead and load the eyedropper with paint. Drop one to two drops of paint to find focus. Keeping the drops on the tile will help make bigger splashes. Every so often you will need to clean off both tiles and keep shooting. Timing is the real challenge again just like the water drops projects. Use a tripod!

Lets do one more indoor projects. This time no timing is required. Lets mix water and oil for some interesting photographs. Using a shallow bowl add water and oil. Stir up the mix to get different looks. Place to shallow bowl above some colorful wrapping paper to get some cool images changing out the wrapping paper for different color variation. You don’t even need a tripod for this shoot. But if you do use a tripod just snap away its that easy. If you add a drop of dish soap this changes the whole dynamics of your shoot.