Molton Brown

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Liquid
Molton Brown.
A personal series, made to see what the shower liquid would do in water. There was no brief, so the only question worth answering was a physical one. Water printed as light is easy to fake and obvious when it is faked. A gobo pattern lies flat on the bottle and stays where it is put. I shot overhead through a shallow rippling surface instead, so the caustics fall on the pack from the real thing and wrap the curve of the glass. Dark vignetted studio, one bright pool of light at centre, nothing else in the frame competing for it.


A companion frame suspends the bottle in mid-air above the water with a splash crown and ripple ring beneath it, bubbles frozen in flight. Sage and olive against charcoal. This is the only dark-key set I have shot in bodycare photography, and low key is what lets a single specular ripple carry a whole picture. The high speed splash and water work here fed straight back into the commissioned sets, including Dove and Love Beauty and Planet. Shot in London.
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