{"id":35,"date":"2013-08-29T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/photography\/2013\/08\/29\/creating-still-life-photos\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T08:11:13","slug":"creating-still-life-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/photography\/2013\/08\/29\/creating-still-life-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Still Life Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Smoking<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Still life photos come in all shapes and forms, but rather than bowls of fruit, colourful wine glasses and other more typical items, I prefer still life photos that are still true to reality but far more surreal in nature.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, while trying to figure out how to make a champagne glass exciting, I spotted a few flammable chemicals sitting on my work bench.<\/p>\n

Of course, a light bulb went off and after trying a few different techniques using propane, butane, gasoline and other things I decided a champagne glass filled with water and just a drop of gasoline was perfect.<\/p>\n

I set my temporary work space up with a couple black reflectors and used a speed light to illuminate the image from above.<\/p>\n

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\nYou can see, this garage studio is a pretty quick simple, yet effective setup.<\/p>\n

I only did some very minor correcting in photoshop to give the interior of the flame a blue glow but kept the rest of it natural.<\/p>\n

I was very pleased with the result and it made my Friday very interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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