Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A portion of my job at the university involved providing photo illustrations to go along with stories in various publications. I strove to catch the viewer's eye so they would read the text. This art professor built kinetic sculptures using multiple high pressure water valves synched with electronic flashes to create the illusion of water drops suspended in the air forming artistic patterns. At the time the university was doing a story on him, his sculpture was dismantled for shipment to an exhibition, so I came up with this publicity photo in the studio using a plate of glass sprayed with a mixture of water and Karo syrup (to keep the droplets in place). Lit with multiple electronic flashes. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/19910404_MR_Award_PSOA_10009B_9.jpg.html > -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt