Hugh Wyler
Falling Espresso
Falling cup of espresso. Increased contrast, mattened background.
The idea was to drop the cup from half a meter of height into a bucket of water with a towel on top - to dampen the fall and take care of the mess. (I had the camera on a tripod with an external flash, next to the bucket.) Two things were problematic; timing the manual trigger and getting the liquid in an interesting motion. The first problem was solved by dropping cups of water until I had a feel for when to shoot. I soon found out that I had to give the cup a rotating motion to solve the other - so I basically flipped the whole thing like a coin. Which of course made hitting the bucket a little more difficult... :-/
Falling Espresso
Falling cup of espresso. Increased contrast, mattened background.
The idea was to drop the cup from half a meter of height into a bucket of water with a towel on top - to dampen the fall and take care of the mess. (I had the camera on a tripod with an external flash, next to the bucket.) Two things were problematic; timing the manual trigger and getting the liquid in an interesting motion. The first problem was solved by dropping cups of water until I had a feel for when to shoot. I soon found out that I had to give the cup a rotating motion to solve the other - so I basically flipped the whole thing like a coin. Which of course made hitting the bucket a little more difficult... :-/