Abstract setup – A behind ​the scenes look

Last week I shared some new products featuring blue and yellow oil on water art. Today I thought I would take you behind the scenes and show you my abstract setup.

Amazing abstracts

Here is a selection of abstracts created through dropping oil on water. It has been suggested to me that these could easily be digial art created in software such as Photoshop. However I can assure you these are all capture on camera. Let me show you how I did it!

Setting up the equipment – a sneak peak!

To create these images I first set up my tripod so that I could take an overhead shot.

I filled a shallow glass dish with water and dropped a few drops of oil onto the surface.

Propping the dish up I then turn on my light pad below the dish. I layered different coloured paper and acetate sweet wrappers under the dish. This then created the coloured patterns on the oil drops.

Post production

Once I have captured the shots, I then spend some time editing them in Photoshop. When capturing this sort of image, there are always going to be a number of unwanted elements, such as extra small bubbles.

I remove these unwanted bubbles and dust using the spot healing brush tool.

And that is all there is to it! It is quite a simple process to create these oil on water images. I hope you have found this behind the scenes abstract setup interesting and useful.

Want to buy this art?

Check out my oil on water abstracts over on my Redbubble site.

Sara Sadler

Photographer

I am a fine art photographer based in the South of England. I enjoy sharing my photographic adventures, hints and tips.

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