Technicolour
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Liquid
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Shiny
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Glass
Technicolour.
A personal series about crafting light in camera. The bottle itself is iridescent, and that suggested a set where the colour comes out of the glass rather than off a gel behind it. Coloured light through glass usually just tints a picture. To get colour that belongs to the object, the glass has to behave as the source. I cast dichroic through and onto the bottle so it works as a prism, throwing rainbow caustics and coloured spill onto the surface around it. The key sits low so the coloured shadows stretch and the caustics travel, which turns a small refraction into the structure of the frame rather than a highlight on it.
The ground is a textured white leather grain, chosen because it takes coloured light without adding a colour of its own and keeps its grain under a raking source. Behind it, smeared out-of-focus gradients in acid green, pink and gold hold the depth. Macro crops on the base and the cap crystal show where the caustics are being made, which is the tactile part of the idea. Every colour in the set was made on the day. That in-camera approach is the basis of my prism photography and of the Balancing series shot in the same spirit. Shot in London by David Lineton.
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