Water-Shot - setup

Here's how I did it. Nothing fancy, just simple DIY stuff.

 

 

From left to right:

 

- made a reflector out of an old FedEx envelope, opened up and stuck to a broomstick. Tied the broomstick to the chair with an ID card lanyard (I didn't have any string or clamps), and bounced an SB-600 off that. This was the Key Light.

- Background wall - Snooted an SB600 with a DIY homemade Cereal Box (they're guuuuhhh-reat!) and used a "Victorinox swiss army multitool card" as a red gel.

- Placed pupsy and the glass onto a table-top ironing board, to give them some height and ease up all the bending over I'd have to do when shooting. Plus a nice, flat, matt cloth surface.

- SB-600 is bouncing off the homemade reflector. This is acting as the key light. I go-bo'ed it with a small index card to avoid any spillover of light onto the blue glass & pupsy.

- SB-600 with Tony-The-Tiger homemade snoot & impromptu red-gel.

- Duct-tape used to stick everything together

- Some christmas-mints, cuz I was hungry.

 

And there we go, a strobist-style shot, done with some elbow grease & know how; using regular household items.

Done