Ever wanted to take some high speed photos of flour flying through the air?
PhotoExtremist has put together a very interesting tutorial about how to set-up, light, shoot, and edit a high-speed photoshoot using colored flour. It's a surprisingly basic setup for what amount to some pretty impressive looking images.
You can see the entire thing below, but it's essentially a pretty straight forward. The flour is colored using holi powder, and flung at the model by an assistant. The scene was lit with a beauty-dished strobe from the front, and teo rear speedlights slaved into the system. That provided enough light to capture a high-speed image of the flour flying.
Photographer Evan Sharboneau also went through the substantial editing he did with the images, often times radically changing the color and spahe of the photo in order to get the final image he was looking for.
So it you're up for a project that's going to require some heavy cleanup, but could create some fantastic images.
I had to introduce this cool bit of high-speed powder photography to the masses. Yes it will require some cleanup but the imagery is far from ordinary. This is a tutorial on how to set up, light, shoot and an extremely high speed shutter.