Come create with me! In this episode we play around with food dye in water photography and we add the extra challenge of photographing one subject 10 different ways.
Storytime
Earlier in the week I was feeling a creative itch to create something so I played around with water and oil photography when I had this moment to add food dye drops and it created such a cool effect that I quickly became obsessed to see what kind of pattern I create.
The Photography Challenge
This time I decided to take it a step further and add the creative challenge of one subject 10 different ways.
I started struggling after the fifth image to figure out other compositions and what to do with the food dye in water.
This is a classic challenge/exercise to develop your eye and stretch your creativity. It’s fair to say it did the job for me.
Final Thoughts
Here are some of my final thoughts from this create with me session:
1) Give your glasses a nice wipe before you photograph them to make sure theres no finger prints on them
2) Experiment with the tools you have! I just used the food dye out of the bottle but if you had a syringe like tool available to inject the food dye at a greater speed and precision into the water it would create a cooler and cleaner aesthetic
3) Use a surface that cleans up nicely. This doesn’t create as much of a mess than the splash photography but the dye can get everywhere so make sure you are using a surface that wipes clean or you’re okay with throwing away after if it gets all messy
4) Don’t be afraid to experiment, use different pain, glasses, tools, and colours!