Spray the Pepsi: Mobile Triangle Snoot Photography

Sometimes I get a spark of creativity and incredible things happen! For these photos I had the idea to spray the Pepsi bottles with a water bottle and capture the mist. What looks like snow or sparkles is actually just flying water.

I had 30 minutes to capture photos by using just my camera and a speed light. I created a triangle with my camera, the light, and my subject. I used a flash bender to funnel the light and thus creating a snoot. I held the light in one hand, the spray bottle in another and had my camera on a tripod. This is where the mobile triangle snoot happens. I set my timer and I would spray the Pepsi right before the picture was taken.

I took these photos in the kitchen in the morning and to get the black background I and a short exposure of 1/200 sec and an F/5.0. The low F-stop allowed to only get the bottle in sharp focus. My friend Hayden Nielsen helped me choose the best photos to display. I got a lot of similar angles, but the I had sprayed the water differently to create different patterns.

Joel Nisleit also has captured frozen motion with a flash. Instead of spraying water, he dropped things into it! Check it out!