Water

Water is one of he most easiest yet at the same time difficult object to shoot. Water is water, it is simply just everyone's everyday experience, it can't be wrong. True. But at the same time, to capture the water in a way that is recognizable and dynamic and dramatic is difficult, especially in its set up.

I made this shot for CoverMark, it is in tended to use for counter front light box, as wide as 2 meters. Because it is in counter front, the resolution has to be very high to support the close up quality, so preparing the shot is a challenge, and require more calculation in work. In this shot, I was using Hasselblad H3D39 and HC 120/4 Makro lens. Even with the full resolution of the 39 million-pixels capture back, at the widest size it only supports to 7,216 pixels, divide by a moderate resolution of 180 dpi you get the size of picture width around 40 inches, or roughly 1 meter, which is 1/2 of what was needed, so multiple shot is needed, and for this final result, I did probably 30 separate shots on the water along and around 10 pictures with cosmetic case dropping into water, combine them together to arrive the final output, which gone well beyond 1 G in size.

When the requirement is high, easy thing can become very difficult. But well planning and careful production makes difficult things becomes easy.