u/ktjugar

First shot is just one 2x3 gridded softbox camera left with some atmosphere in a can behind the subject

Second shot is the same 2x3 gridded softbox overhead as a topper, a CTO’d bare bulb strobe outside coming through the window, and a reflector uplighting the subject just to give a little fill in the eyes and create a bit of a catch light. Next image is a wide shot of this setup.

Third set up is on a 4 foot roll of gray with an umbrella (matte white interior) + diffusion as my key and the 2x3 gridded softbox as a rim light.

My pour was clearly terrible but I'm wondering if my milk texture seems good and I just need to work on my pour technique or if something seems like it could be improved with the milk texture as well?

Thanks!

Hello,

I began my journey into attempting latte art about 3 months ago. I’ve had marginal successes intermittently with no real consistency. Often times I get blobby milk like in the video or I get close to what seems to be properly textured milk but the lines are quite as defined as I see others to be. I’ve watched so many videos and read a lot of content on texturing milk and I’m not quite sure where I’m going wrong.

I’m using whole milk, aerating for about 5 seconds, and then texturing until the jug is too hot to touch and then for a few seconds longer. I rarely ever integrate all the bubbles by the time I’m done so maybe I’m aerating for too long? I’d love any recommendations or feedback. Also I'm using a Breville Touch if that's helpful. Thank you!

A shotgun range was doing an event where you shoot clay pigeons under black lights so we did a promo for them and lit it with tube lights to mimic the look of black lights. They of course weren’t shooting during the photoshoot which is another reason we did a promo instead of just event coverage, we could have never gotten these angles during the event and light would have been problematic.

I initially tried just using their black lights but they were quite dim compared to a tube light. We used constant lights as opposed to strobes because incorporating the existing ambient in an already dark environment was necessary to get any amount of detail in the sky.

Probably could have made it work with strobes but knowing I’d have to up my ambient exposure at night anyway, constant lights just seemed better in this case to me.

I work full-time as a university photographer so I get my fill there of shooting studio work, commercial academics, editorial, athletics, etc. This camera is my “doesn’t feel like work” camera where I can just photograph whatever seems interesting to me without needing to consider every little detail and if it’ll work well for a mailer or something.

Also these were shot RAW and processed with Dylan Spitz DS2 presets.