Self-pouring Coca-Cola bottle
For the past few days a photo idea has been brewing in my head. My portfolio has been lacking product shots, and that's something I'm working on fixing.
I went to Canadian Tire and bought a very thin fishing line (.20 mm), a glue gun and a bottle of Coke. After that I went to London Drugs, where I bought some different coloured poster boards to use as a background. That was the extent of my shopping spree.
When I got home, I set up some lights in my living room (one of them being a snooted flash under the dining table), clamped a red poster board to a backdrop stand, taped and clamped a broomstick on half a table (don't ask), tied a piece of fishing line just below the Coke bottle cap (having already glued a length of copper wire to the bottom of the bottle) and put a glass on the table.
After some time practicing the pouring of the Coke, I put ice cubes in the glass, unscrewed the cap, and started shooting.
And just to make it look like an ad I placed some silly text on there as well.
My mock ad for a self-pouring Coke bottle.
Lobster on a bus
I was driving in Langford yesterday with my family, when my wife all of a sudden exclaimed "That's your photo! On the back of that bus!" I just caught a glimpse of it as the bus turned, but enough to recognize it. It was one of the photos from my school portfolio.
When I was shooting my portfolio, which was all food, one of the restaurants I shot at was Nautical Nellies in downtown Victoria. When we came there, they conjured up eight different courses, one of which was a delicious looking lobster and steak. And that was the photo that my wife saw on the bus yesterday.
The lobster and steak image I used in my portfolio.
So naturally I went bus hunting this morning, before heading to a meeting with former classmate Devin Milner. And while driving down Douglas Street, I caught sight of my photo on a bus. It wasn't too hard keeping up with the bus, and it finally came to a halt on Humboldt Street, where it seemed to wait patiently while I snapped a few photos.
And here it is, in all its glory, my first bus image. Some of my images are already on Nautical Nellies' website, but seeing one on a bus was a different kind of fun.
Nautical Nellies ad on the back of a bus, featuring my food photography.