Drinks in Motion

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Liquid
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Glass
Drinks in Motion.
This is an experiment in in-camera blurring, made to see how motion can carry a drink and how far a story can be built across a set of assets using movement alone. Blur is easy to make and hard to keep readable. Smear a glass far enough and it stops being a drink. I worked long exposures with the subject moving, streaking the highballs into horizontal bands of colour, then mixed flash and drag on some frames so the ice freezes sharp while the tail pulls away behind it. That single sharp anchor is what keeps the frame legible as a serve rather than a stripe.


A heavy magenta and yellow gel wash holds the series together across very different amounts of movement, and several frames are pushed until they abstract almost past recognition. All of it happened in front of the lens. The same thinking runs through the rest of the drinks motion photography here, including the infusion series. Shot in London by David Lineton.
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