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This is How You Make Chocolate Look Interesting

Chris Gampat
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07/20/2015
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Screenshot taken from the video
Screenshot taken from the video

Profoto recently shared a video where they collaborated with photographer Finn Beales on one of his shoots. Finn was charged with the task of making chocolate look incredible. For those of us that are foodies with a sweet tooth we know that this isn’t tough to do at all. But what Finn did was stepped up his game and got very creative.

Finn took melted chocolate sauce and splashed in around onto fruit and other things. Then by using Profoto lights was able to stop the motion. The video shows him shooting lots of frames over and over again–which is a testament to quick recycle time of the lights. But another way that they could have done this is with a long shutter speed and nothing else but a flash with a super fast flash duration. Profoto lights are very capable of doing this.

The images are artistic and technical masterpieces and go to show what some extra creativity can do for you. The video is after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.