“Color Rain” – France – Francois Dorothe – Featured Photographer
Charlie’s Super Fantastic Photo Tip of the Day: If your subject moves/changes at all, then you should almost always shoot in continuous burst mode with your camera. Card space is cheap and you can always delete.
Francois has a way with color. Almost his entire portfolio is based around the rainbow. Whether it is in Europe, Africa, or in his studio, color is the common denominator. This spectacular image is no exception. Please read his story below then check out his incredible portfolios.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/francoisdorothe/
http://500px.com/francoisdorothe
Enter Francois:
Contrary to appearances, this image was quite simple to take. You just need a camera, preferably with a macro lens, a color pencil box, a perspex plate, and a mist sprayer. Oh, and one or two flashguns as well.
I simply put the opened pencil box approx. 40cm under the plexiglass plate, sprayed water on the plate, placed the camera vertically above the plexiglass, and focused on the tiny droplets.
The pencil box was lit by 2 off camera flashguns placed either side of the box. The flash guns were triggered with a Camera Axe device because that was all I had at the time, but you can simply trigger them with classic radio triggers like Gadget Infinity Cactus or Pocket Wizards, or even via a canon OC3 cord.
I set the aperture to f/9 in order to have enough depth of field on the droplets, and set the sensitivity to ISO 100 to have the best image quality without noise.
Camera was a Canon EOS 5DMkII with an EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS macro lens.
This picture will give you a more precise idea of the setup: CLICK HERE
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beautiful!!!!wonderfull!!!very nice
Really a creative and beautiful picture.
Amazing! I wish I could be more creative with my comments, but everything is so awesome….
Similar to our chakra spheres and ‘other’ Spiritual orbs seen by many in this world…Colours and shapes blend in so well..plus they are some of my favourites..excellent..
WOW – this is surprising – what a fantastic effect. VERY beautiful!!!!
Nice!
This is gorgeously amazing!!
Amazing capture!
Super!
Beautiful, colorful and clever. Jay
Simply love it!
So very creative! Stunning!
Love this kind of colorful art!
What a fascinating concept for a photo, and still cool in an op-art
sense as well. And surprisingly simple, from the explanation. Brava!
Beautiful
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Squealing with joy looking at this! It’s wonderful happy to me!
Amazing effect you`ve created here:)!
How brilliantly colorful, and what a nice idea! This picture has made my day
cool work!
My first thought was – what is this painting doing on Photobotos!?!
Very clever…
Inspiring, need to try.
That is a great creation….well done
I like analogue special effects. This is perfect.
That is so clever, and so effective.
very mood changing for me. i was in a serious mode, and when i came to your site, i instantly felt like a child again. colors, balloons, all the things that kids like! love it!
I was trying technique out myself last night. I was using a glass frying pan lid, and I know now that that isn’t going to cut it, the surface was too curvy. This photo and description has inspired me to try again!
Good Luck Abra! We are here to inspire.
that can’t be real….
WOW! Very, very cool.
creative
I echo the “very clever” remark. The colors are lovely and drops reminded me of a fleet of colorful hot air balloons.
Simply wonderful.
Really cool!
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I am loving your site and my daily dose of great photography, This one is super. I appreciate the explanation of how the photos are done, a great inspiration to those of us who want to learn and explore.
Very clever! Such vivid colors! You are very creative!
it’s a fantastic shot, but i think you should give yourself credit, ie, it’s like my dad used to say, “it’s simple, if you know how”
best wishes, nice work!
Simply beautiful!
Wonderful …. amazing job has been done here … this I like very much – it’s more art then I have seen on Guggenheim.