Canon Pixma: bringing Colour To Life

The project is a collaboration with biochemist/photographer, Linden Gledhill for Canon’s PIXMA colour printer range and Dentsu London.  The project features surreal ‘sound sculptures’ made of dancing droplets of paint captured in extreme detail as they react to sound waves.

 Linden has a mesmerising Water Figure series on Flickr, a fantastic example of “bringing colour to life”.  He agreed to collaborate with Dentsu London and travelled from Philadelphia to shoot the campaign stills on a Canon 5D Mark II, with a Canon EF 100mm Macro IS USM lens.

The ‘colour sculptures’ were created by stretching a balloon over a speaker to form a membrane.  A few drops of paint were then placed in the centre of the balloon and a single sharp note was played through the speaker, causing the paint to erupt for just a fraction of a second.

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.