Fantasy Shoot 7

Plans for the shoot:

With this shoot I want to explore the theme of 'magic' within Fantasy, taking films such as Harry Potter as inspiration. I really enjoyed doing some colour-inspired close-up work last year in Unit 3 with my coloured roses, so I am planning on doing some more close-up work today, creating 'potions' using food colouring and water, with different shaped glass bottles. I hope that the food colouring will disperse in the water slowly to allow me to capture pretty patterns within the water. Afterwards, I am going to experiment by using smoke-shaped brushes to bring the potions to life.

Evaluation:

The images that I captured today didn't really fulfil what I had in mind as the colouring was quite old and didn't come out as bright as I had hoped. It was also very difficult to get the lighting correct in the studio, as I wanted the water to illuminate and make the colour 'glow'. 

However, in some of the images, the darker colours actually created a nice eery effect, giving the effect of 'dark magic'. I particularly like this image as the brush strokes blended nicely with the coloured waters  and looked quite realistic:

After I had shot, I had a quick discussion with Paul about my issues with the colours and the lighting, and so we came up with the solution of using the light-box to illuminate the water from underneath, and using a dark background to contrast this. Not only did it give the images a nice glow, it made even the darkest colours look brighter and so the one trial picture I captured, I used to created an animation, changing the hue by 10 each time to make the potion look like it is real and developing:

I was really happy with this result, so now I am going to re-shoot this idea next lesson completely using this technique and with some newer, brighter food colouring to creating some different patterns and effects.