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A two minute exposure captured last Sunday. George's Head, Kilkee, Co. Clare. Happened to find a good spot on our road trip.

I know it's not the trendy one hard light source, but I wanted to try something classic with freezing water after playing with the sun screen image the other day. This is done purely for fun and practice.

Main light a large softbox on the left behind a scrim with a large reflector on the opposite side, to create that smooth gradient reflection. Basic reflector with a grid for the background and an optical spot to pop the label.

The product is placed on top of a translucent plastic cap of another product in the water.

It's not completely in focus on the sides as I was shooting quite open to keep the flash power low for fast recycle time and to blur out the background as the water container was tiny. I could have focus stacked of course if it was a real job. On the other hand I personally like the effect but it's a no-no for some I'm sure.

For anyone interested here's the setup on video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZtRUOKoPGE/

I’ve been photographing sunrises recently and the past week or so being constantly cloudy in Dublin I wanted to try to create my own sunset in studio with a product.

The first photo is just water in a baking dish as it was the largest container I had and already black, which was important for the contrasty look. It was a tad too small but I’m happy enough. The waves were created with a hair dryer.

The second photo has mylar (actually one of those space blankets) instead of water. I did this one first actually as I didn’t think I had a large enough container for water.

Strobes

Sun: Basic reflector with orange gel

Background: Basic reflector with grid and blue gel

Water: Bare bulb with blue gel

Product: Optical spot with adjustable shutter and CTO gel, could be a snoot or some gobo contraption.

Shot at F2.8 on around 100mm with a black mist filter. If I had a larger container and/or more space I could have probably kept the foreground in focus while still having the sun blurred enough.

Here’s a BTS video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZpdAAWtSBr/

Did another one purely for fun and to see if I could get nice results with water just by using our bathtub. It's only two lights, one with optical spot with shutters to control the shape and another one bare bulb with a blue gel. BTS video here https://www.instagram.com/p/DZk3Ux9N8iJ/

Shot my hair spray today for fun. Two strip boxes, optical spot and one in the background (though it could have been more powerful looking at it now). I'll link a behind the scenes video if anyone's interested.

Nice sunrise at Howth this morning in various exposures after days of rain.

A nice sunrise last week. The summer was great as long as it lasted!

I've been working on my long exposures, this one was 2 minutes. Not sure if advertising is okay but prints available if anyone's interested.

A few nice sunrises I've captured the past week or so. The second pic is a combination of a regular shot and a 2 minute exposure hence the smooth water. Some nice detail shots of the sun reflecting off the water as well.

As a night owl finally decided to catch that sunrise (and sunset) to put my long lens to use.

When you give a headshot photographer a long lens.

I mostly photograph people but lately I've been dabbling with nature pics after getting the RF100-500mm.