LEGEND is an HDR fluid art video which entirely focus on gold in all its pristine shades and colors. Over a period of 4 month, I created visuals on the macro and microscopic scale with golden paint, ink, powders and particles. The appearance of the main subject is as clean and focused as possible by avoiding any other background colors than white and black with very subtle hues to light blue and dark orange. Most of the shots were created in petri dishes and on glass plates with a variety of backlight and toplight setups. Within the last years, I continued to focus on clean shapes and organic motion of substances, while elaborating more complex light setups. This is especially important when working with reflective and metallic paint as the distance between shadow and light can be a challenge to capture. Gold has always been my all-time favorite color and I’m happy to present this piece as a 2 chapter approach to this material. Part one shows the soft and delicate properties of gold on white background with slow moving liquid patterns. Part two is more about the punchy and epic dimension of this metal and its fluid forms.