Milk bath shoot

in #portraitphotography6 years ago (edited)

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I was planning to get a model in a milk bath for some time but I had a lot of question about how to get started.

Where will I find a suitable bath and bathroom to setup this shot. My bathroom is way to small and I would not be able to take the shots I wanted to because of this.

Is the bath actually filled with milk or how much milk do I need to add to get a milky look?

How should the lighting conditions be, as a natural light photographer, setting up the studio lights in a bathroom might prove to be challenging.

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Having decided that my bathroom was simply not going to be good enough, I started looking for a hotel or B&B with a nice, practical bathroom. I was amazed about the prices they were asking, especially when I told them what I was planning to do. I knew that I would probably need a couple of tries before I would get to the result I was looking for.
Knowing that I would have to adjust my lights several times, perhaps even buy some new light modifiers to get to the result I wanted.

Taking all this in consideration I decided not to go for the milk bath shoot, it would turn out to be to expensive to get this one shot. I buried the idea, but somewhere deep inside the idea kept smoldering.

And then one day when I was searching this second hand website for some stuff that I don't even remember anymore,
I stumbled on this large bathtub, big enough to fit three people next to each other. I knew that I had found the answer to all my questions. I bought the bath, it was cheaper then renting a b&b once. I put it in the garden, used natural light, so I did not have to buy any extra light modifiers. And I was ready to go.

The only remaining question was how much milk do I need to put in the bath. I just experimented a bit with it and it turned out that 12 liters of milk for my size of bathtub was plenty enough.

I got the models in my garden on a sunny day and we were ready to go. It turned out that it was way to sunny so I ended up putting a party tent over the bath to get some diffuse light.

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I was quite happy with the end result. The big plus was that I ended up using this same setup on a number of occasions and it only costs me the price of 12 liters of milk to pull it off.

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That's an amazing story and your pictures look very good.
Congratulations! and good luck in the future.
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Thank's Adam, I'm looking forward to explore this new platform. It seems to be an amazing environment to share. But it'll take some time before I'll get the hang of it. But anyway, more to come soon :)

Great photo, love the background

It's a combination of a milk bath and a party tent. I kind of like the foreground as well :D