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Are the droplets on this shopped to be brighter? I don't think they are, but I'm not 100% sure and I'm about to start a study on this image, and I don't want to do it on something that I can't achieve myself.

Also /r/ing similar ones, if anyone has any.
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>> Anonymous
it would look a lot better if they weren't
>> Anonymous
The contrast is definitely bumped up pretty high but the brightness in the droplets is caused by the low angle of light being refracted onto the surface by the water.
>> Anonymous
>>164124
i dont buy it. look at the tiny droplets near the bottom of the picture. theres no way those would light up light that if they had not been artificially brightened.
>> Anonymous
looks so much like a render it's stupid.
>> Anonymous
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Here, I just took a shot at replicating the effect. All I did was light it then resize it in photoshop - not even any contrast adjustments.

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>> Anonymous
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And here it is cropped and with a contrast curve.

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>> Anonymous
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Here's a setup shot. I might try it with strobes and a grid later just to see what I can do. Thanks for the idea, OP.

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>> Anonymous
droplets are good for bringing out the freshness of a frosty beverage or the sexyness of a hot woman, but who the fuck puts water droplets on a pack of sigarets?

My instant assosiation: Standing in the rain, smoking. Hands and parts of face smells like sour wet tobacco for the rest of the day.
I fucking hate that.
>> Anonymous
>>164132
>who the fuck puts water droplets on a pack of sigarets?
>a pack of sigarets?
>sigarets?
>> Anonymous
>>164131
>>164130
>>164129
now do it again with the light more angled so its like in the OP.
>> Anonymous
>>164135
Will do. It's only a few degrees of difference. It will be a lot easier with a grid.
>> Anonymous
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Close enough? Obviously I can't make it identical because a soda can is not the same shape as a pack of "sigarets".

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>> Anonymous
>>164152
now you see the problem. the tiny droplets away from the source of light dont light up in this picture like they do elsewhere. but on the OP all the droplets are just as bright, even the tiny ones in the dark area.
>> Anonymous
>>164131

zOMG

is that some TSE lens?
>> Anonymous
>>164134
English = fourth language.
>> Anonymous
>>164158
Actually they do. It's just a different shaped object. Look at the drop on the second 'e' in pepper. It's away from the light source. Another thing to take into account is the shape of my droplets. They're flatter because I'm not using glycerin as they most likely were in the OP shot. Glycerin makes the water thicker and gives it thicker drops that last longer under lights.
>> Anonymous
>>164174
wait, your shadows are going downwards. the light is still too even in the direction of the light
>> Anonymous
>>164169
Yeah, it's the TS-E 90mm f/2.8. Just borrowing it to see what it's like using tilt-shift on an SLR.
>> Anonymous
>>164175
Different shaped object. How many times so I need to say it?
>> Anonymous
>>164179
guess what, the whole point was to angle the light so that it didnt fall even on the can in the direction the light is going.instead of moving the can, tilt the light slightly towards the camera.
>> Anonymous
>>164183
I don't have a small enough light source to produce fall off like that on a flat surface.
>> Anonymous
>>164184
move the light closer
>> Anonymous
>>164185
Moving it closer makes it bigger. That's the problem. I'm using a Profoto 7B and I only have a 20 degree grid for it. I've masked it off to a 2" circle but I still can't get it small enough. I'm determined, however so I may come back with something better.

Regardless though, the whole point of all this was to show that you can light up the droplets very bright even when they are only being grazed by the lightsource and that the OP pic is a result of lighting more than shooping.
>> Anonymous
>>164191
well what im trying to say is what you showed is different. you have your light source grazing the droplets, yes, but the light is traveling straight down at the droplets. in the OP however, you can see the light is angled away from the droplets, and i dont think the tiny ones at the bottom would pick up enough light to shine like that. both your pictures were the same, except one the light wasnt directly in front of the can.
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>>164194
I don't think the light is angled away from the droplets in the OP pic, it's just because of how close it is to the object. Light falls of in stops based on distance so that when you have a light 1ft away from an object then move to 2ft away you will have lost one stop of light on the object. So what I'm seeing in the OP pic is a very small light source just out of frame pointing at the object at a very acute angle so that the brightness drops off dramatically as it falls down the surface.

Here's another shot. I have the strobe just a couple of inches above the can. Note the brightness of the white of the D at the top vs. the brightness of the white above the 12oz at the bottom. Also note the brightness of the droplets just above the 12oz. Disregard the bright beveled edge at the top of the can.

Is this getting closer to what you're talking about?

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>> Anonymous
>>164209
Also, it'd be easier for me if the red on the can were not metallic because it's reflecting essentially no light as it is where the red in the OP pic is more semi-matte and more easily reflects light at acute angles.