It wasn’t hard to capture this shot, except I had to sacrifice a little bit. They said they would have a champagne opening and I asked them to do it at the same time. I set up two flashes in the back and my assistant held one, told them to stand close to each other, shake the bottles hard and open on my assistant’s count.
I got into position, really close to them (four feet away). Although I know I would get a big champagne splash as well as my gear, it was the only way to capture this perspective (the feel of drops coming right to your face when you look at it).
I did a few test shot and everything was good to go. Then, my assistant counted “3 … 2 … 1 … DO IT!”
11 shots within 4s. I smelled like champagne when I got home and my lens was totally wet. But we got some good shots to pick from.
The rest was to edit and make it perfect. We didn’t do much editing since the original had all that we needed. Only cropping, enhance the contrast, sharpness, and tweak the color. And here is our final product.
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I like this idea of posting "behind the photo" blog posts! 🙂 Great job, Leo!