Soda can experiment.

arcooke · Jan 19, 2011

I'm not even going to begin to explain how unbelievably frustrating this shot was. Let me just say: two small flashlights dangling from miscellaneous objects in my bathroom, macro in low light, and no tripod.

Anyway.. I had this idea at work and tried it out when I got home (what it would look like from the inside of a can). Didn't come out QUITE as good as I had hoped, but I'm satisfied.

The noise is intentional for effect.

Destin · Jan 19, 2011

That is pretty wicked. I'd love to see a shot of how you did it haha

arcooke · Jan 19, 2011

I thought about taking a picture of my setup.. but I was literally so frustrated with A) everything rolling/falling/tipping over just as I was about to take the shot and B) 99.9% of my shots motion blurred from shaky hands

As soon as I got the shot I wanted, I snatched up the can and smashed it and launched it in the trash with everything I had left in me. :lol:

bigtwinky · Jan 19, 2011

cool idea, nicely done. I really like the black and white conversion you did

Hardrock · Jan 19, 2011

Great idea and Great shot!

naaaach · Jan 19, 2011

Woah. That is really neat.

Derrel · Jan 19, 2011

naaaach said:
Woah. That is really neat.

Indeed! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Bitter Jeweler · Jan 19, 2011

Boomn4x4 · Jan 19, 2011

Great idea... but I'd have no idea what ANY of it was if you didn't explain it.

The shot is cool with your description, but I would pass it right up if I didn't know what I was looking at.

arcooke · Jan 20, 2011

Thanks everyone.

@Boomn4x4 I agree. That's why I said it didn't come out quite as good as I had hoped. I wanted it to scream "this was taken from inside a can".. but that's really hard to do. Especially because the inside of the can isn't all that much different from the outside.. so it takes some staring to figure out what's going on.

lildlege1 · Jan 20, 2011

WOW!!! I think its cool looking

OBRichard · Jan 20, 2011

Very interesting idea... Thinking inside the box/can.

KmH · Jan 20, 2011

arcooke said:
Thanks everyone.

@Boomn4x4 I agree. That's why I said it didn't come out quite as good as I had hoped. I wanted it to scream "this was taken from inside a can".. but that's really hard to do. Especially because the inside of the can isn't all that much different from the outside.. so it takes some staring to figure out what's going on.

Kudos for hanging in till you got the shot. Great idea. Your situation is why I have a lot of grip equipment and several rolls of gaffers tape around.
I would crop it square.

I don't think it could ever scream "this was taken from inside a can", because few people know what that perspective looks like, and like Boom4X4 would not know what it was without an explanation.