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Interesting, thanks for sharing this. Out of curiosity, what is the water in? Sink? Some tub?
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You seem to be doing pretty well!
You'll probably find some interesting things if you look for articles on Harold "Doc" Edgerton, who pioneered the strobe and high-speed photography.
Here's a few interesting links:
www.agallery.com/Pages/photographers/edgerton.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Edgerton
slashdot.org/articles/04/01/22/1347223.shtml?tid=152&tid=...
www.ammoman.com/gunshots.html
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Ultima: Thanks! Yes, it was shot in my tub, but the white you see is the dinner plate I was using as the drip catcher. The plate was raised above the surface of the tub on a precarious tower constructed from an upside down bucket (for height), a wet towel (for stability), and a large metal bowl (for adjusting angle).
At first I was just dripping into the bowl, but the water was too deep and the drips looked more like a tidal wave. I've also used the plate upside down (the shallower puddle made for more explosive drips) and I really liked some of those results. The black background was made by draping a black long-sleeve t-shirt across the back of the tub and wetting it to keep it stuck to the tub.
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jbum: Thanks! And, the links are great! I thought I wrote this reply hours ago, but it must have not stuck.
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Here is an example of some of my first attempts with the bowl:
Although I still think it looks cool, and I used the same technique, the water was too deep for a good drop. Actually with this shot, I hadn't made my dripper yet, so I was just using my shower head to drip. I think it was dripping really fast for the big disturbance I got.
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I think 1 in 5 is pretty good. I did some of these in mid-March. I didn't count all of the photos but I estimate that I made around 500 exposures, captured maybe 50 splashes, and only ended up with 5 I liked.
But that included a lot of experimentation at the beginning. The last night I did it, I think I was getting about 1 in 5.
I was timing manually as well. By ear. I found that placing the dropper about 1.5ft (about half a meter) above the impact point was a good height. And I timed the exposures so that I was hearing the shutter open instead of the droplet hitting the impact point. If I heard the drop hit it meant I was too early or too late.
I shot mine on a large wooden cutting board at a low angle. The reflection is created by a thin layer of water spread over the surface.
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Very nice. I tried a similar thing in the great outdoors but without a flash. The end result was many many shots fired and very dirty knees...
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great shots, fd & brfuk!
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Here are the shots that got me started with the frozen droplet idea:
www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=159985
www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=159986
I kept hitting the shutter, but it was too hard to get anything at all.
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Here's another:
I realize now that if I'd had less water on the plate I could have gotten a more explosive splash versus the more bulbous effect I've been getting.
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that's cool i'm going to try that this weekend or maybe even sooner!
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Do it eecue! It's fun. Just try to keep your camera from getting wet. =]
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This was a fun excersize! thank you bikeracer fantastic ideas and helpful hints, keep up the great work!
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You might want to try not using a flash at all, with just really bright ambient light. This might get you past the f11 barrier.
I shot this one in ambient light, but the DOF is very small. This is with 100mm macro lens.
Your flash experiment has inspired me to do some more of these though.
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bikeracer, nice shots. I attempted to do the same last night. took about 30 shots - none to remember! I do have a question on focusing.
If autofocus, no light so not-happenning (for me atleast). Manual focus hard time dropping the water at THE SPOT (pitch dark, so shooting in the dark - literally).
How did you (or others) manage focus. I am using a tripod, water in a dinner plate on inverted trash can in the bath tub.
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I picked a spot where the drops were going to hit and focused manually there. Then you need to make the drops hit close to that spot. The best way to do this is to setup some kind of apparatus to hold your dropper for you over that spot but you can do it without that if you have a steady hand and some light.
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For focus, I used a sponge. =] I placed it on the plate where the drops were hitting and auto/manual focused until the sponge corner looked perfect. The drops weren't hitting exactly the same spot each time, but they were pretty close.
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i've been so surprised by the olympus D540 super macro feature. for a camera that only costs $180, it has incredible focus and DOF.
these were both taken outside without flash:
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Thanks for the inspiration bikeracer, I posted this to the pool and got my hand slapped (oops!) so here is my atempt
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These were taken in the dark with my digital handheld camera (minolta f100) set on macro (don't have a digital SLR). They didn't turn out as nice as those with digital SLR's but it was fun trying. Thanks for the tips bikeracer. Anyone else try with with a small handheld? Any luck or tips?
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Great topic. I'd love to try this out soon.
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I find myself wondering what would happen if you were to monkey about with a polarizer on the lens and (possibly) some polaroid material in front of the flash head...
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Robert Matheson, I have tried this with a P&S here:
And PD, really interesting question....definately worth a try, I'm guessing some points will completely disappear?
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Just playing around with my EOS 300D and the internal flash (I really need to get a good external one).
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I do not think that it is strictly true to say the shots are brighter. It is the duration of the flash that makes it seem brighter. A flash can be very short,on some guns it can be 1/20000 of a second at full aperture. It is so short you hardly see it. I made a gizmo that triggers the flash at the sound of the water being disturbed.Every shot is a winner and you can delay it slightly to create an entirely different shot. the shot I submitted on the gallery of the coins hitting the water. the flash was triggered by the coin under the water.
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Thank you for the inspiration
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Another little one ;-)
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bikeracer thanks for explaining this great technique.
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If you really want to get snazzy, you can use a sound-activated flash trigger. Here's a place that sells cheap kits:
hiviz.com/kits/sk1.htm
And here's a gallery (not my work) with some shots using said trigger:
splutphoto.com/100%20Shot%20Browser/studioframes.htm
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I would liek to post my try of this technique but dont know how to add a pic to the post...help?
Thanks
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Here's what I got from experimenting with a normal 35mm, flash, f/5.6, shutter 2000
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cool, supernova! i actually noticed yours when you uploaded them, and i was wondering what lens/settings you used.
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Sunshine, without flash, plastic bathtub
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What a wonderful way to spend a hot, muggy afternoon! With temp & humidity in the 90's a interesting photo activity in the basement was great. Here is my try:
I used a 200mm lens and off camera flash. Need to play with focusing, more later, I am sure!
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ORBman has my vote for favorite waterdrop shot :)
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I haven't got as far as the splash yet, but here was my first attempt at a drip.
Apart from selecting a colourful background, I used a macro lens, the in-camera flash, and manual focus (essential). The hardest part was persuading the tap to run at the right velocity - too fast and it was just a boring stream, too slow and I kept missing the drops....
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yeah, nice ideas bikeracer.
Now I just wanna ditch out of the office and go play photographer!
will have to try some this weekend. (with my dslr and my small digicam)
great shots everyone!
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A little out of focus...
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Mine didn't manage to drop from the tap :)
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Every Drop has a hidden alien
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woohoo! finally got around to trying this. Many thanks to bikeracer for the inspiration.
I'll have my results up in a moment.
Edit: here we go!
I must add as a side note though, with these types of shots, it's rather hard to compare actual attempts to acceptable results when a good deal of this relies upon good timing rather than good composition
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These are all great shots in their own right as there is no control over the timing or effect. You have to take a chance.
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this is a beautiful beautiful thread! wow! I'll have to try this too;-)
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Here's my first attempt with my Kodak DC4800 p&s on macro mode. Taken in a stainless steel kitchen sink, hence the reflections and strange colour patterns. The first was with a flash and the second without.
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My Attempts:
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Bikeracer, sorry for the belated response. I used my canon digital rebel and used a standard 35mm lens. I set my shutter to 200, since that was highest it could go with flash enabled and f/5.6, only using the built-in flash from the camera about 30cm away and started in complete dark (the only problem was I had to clean my lens afterwards from the water). I used the manual mode so I could set everything I wanted as well as setting the camera to take multiple shots so that I can take many pictures consecutively.
Setup, I used a plate full of water, then used an empty eye dropper such as the kind you can get to lubricate your eyes with and filled it with water. I would stick my finger in the area I wanted to capture and have the lens auto focus on the contact point of my finger and water. Then I set the lens back to manual so that it would not readjust on accident. I would get constant dripping action in the location I wanted and snapped away. I would probably get 1 good picture for every 5 as you said. It's a very difficult task to perfect unless you have a nice apparatus or mechanism to release the water. Hope it helps.
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I am so happy with this thread!! Last night I had my very first attempt at the drop freeze. Unfortunately I had not seen this thread yet, so I have not been able to try out any of your tips, but this is even more of a motivation to get that great shot. I will share my moment of shame anyway, just so people can see how NOT to do it.
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I also love this thread!!!
Last week I was inspired by .supernova´s fruitsplashes. But now I´ll try out this technique too!
This group really is needful and offers great pics. This thread only contains best and high quality Photos!!!
I hope to add my part soon! ;-)
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Pyrex bowl full of water on dining table. Bit of blue foood dye. Tripod, flash and fixed pre focus. Touch of USM in ps. My best effort so far.
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this is my attemps:
with milk
with water
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My attempt:
I was actually kinda surprised my little camera was able to achieve a pic with such great detail (but then, this was the best one out of about 30 pics. Dang, it's hard to time the drops!).
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My attempt this week at high speed motion with water:
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I don't have a macro lens to capture individual drops as nicely as the examples above, so I created a sheet of water instead (the water is spread by a spoon). This gives interesting droplet effects on the edge of the sheet, but also distorts the background in unusual ways, like the circular ripples in this shot:
The droplets and the edge of the sheet act like fish-eye lenses to give very distorted miniature images of the striped background (best seen in the large version).
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Wow, I am glad I found this thread. Last night, I tried to capture some water drops while taking a shower. I finally was able to get somewhere when I turned off all the lights, used Fill Flash, macro setting, and played with the ISO on my 4 megapixel Canon Powershot S410 Elph..
![\"Shower](\"http://static.flickr.com/27/43625463_4e343d0710_m.jpg\")
![\"´A](\"http://static.flickr.com/24/43625314_3778a4a57c.jpg\")
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moi attempt
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One of the best yet.
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I like this a lot (as do I like a lot of your other pics, but that is not related to this thread). I'm impressed by the overall sharpness and the different color reflections.
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This is a little different - inverted the sink sprayer, turned the water on just enough to get a nice stream. Used a tripod and flash for this one, then removed color in PS. Not as focused as I would like. Water looks a little like glass shattering to me. Need to try this again using some of the tips I've read here.
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Not bad at all for a first try Atomicode. I remember doing a lot worse myself, but I found a lot of helpful tips here. As for the focussing, what I ended up doing is setting my lens to maual focus, put and object in the main focus field and manually focus on that, perhaps that will help.
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My shot was I think day 2 after I got my Nikon D70, so I hadn't bothered to figure out manual focus yet (doh!). I was putting my hand where the water stream was and letting the camera focus on that, then making the shot.
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I gave this a shot tonight:
Though I have to say my favorite shot so far was the one where I didn't catch a splash...
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oh yes very true!!! its Gorgeous! one more moment and CHAOS!
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A pretty different picture and different effect, but as it technically is "freezing water drops with flash", here it is. It's shot in rain, with the focus set close (about 1.5 meters), deliberately underexposed about one stop, and with fill flash to define the raindrops in the plane of focus a bit (they come out better in full size).
I took it to use as a desktop background, so the lack of crisp detail is deliberate. Anyway, since it technically fits the subject...
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I need to figure out a better setup; I didn't have a lot of room to move and get these better composed.
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I actually like the way this picture is "off center" and the way the light is coming from the right rear. In fact the entire angle of the picture is different than most drop freezing pictures. I like the reflections in this one and the overall sharpness.
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You guys have done an excellent job of capturing water drops. I've tried it in the past with mixed results. It's really a lot harder than it looks. This discussion thread prompted me to try again this morning. I don't like the results as much as some of yours but I'll keep trying.
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Hi, this was my first attempt capturing water drops. After 30-40 shots I get this one. Greetings!
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It only took you 30-40 shots? I'm not even going to tell you how many shots I took in total :-P. Yours looks great.
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@UrbanMdCowboy: Thank you. I would have liked it if I could have got just a bit more to the left, so that some of the bigger ripples weren't cut off. But with these water photos, it's a bit more luck than good photograph composition. :)
Oh, and I did do a little bit of USM on the photo.
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funny how waterdrops all over the world look so the same:
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I just joined Technique a short while ago, and just found this thread. I've been doing water-shots for a while now, and thankfully my camera's flash is super-bright, so I can get some good shots. :) I have an entire "Waterful" set, but a couple of my faves from it are these:
 
This one is one of my most-popular though :)
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I did my photo from a more, over top view
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Here`s a fun attempt with a little helper...
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and another one... 
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i finally got a couple shots in...took a while to figure out how to set this up, but here goes nothing.
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I tried to up the ambient light, but i needed the flash in the end:
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Here is a great article by water drop artist Martin Waugh regarding his techniques. Fascinating.
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This was pretty fun!
Here is my first attempt. I got this shot after only 3 tries. Check out some more here.
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I managed to get these:
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ferg690 [deleted] says:
this is the best one out of my 30 or so attempts
www.flickr.com/photos/29826937@N00/55652490/in/set-1205446/
not too bad for a newby 'eh?
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A penny, a coke glass and a flash.
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here a couple trys of my own...
unfortunatly i dont own a macro and i think you can tell ;)
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amazed by all the tips and photos..
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There are some techniques for additives here www.liquidsculpture.com
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Those are some really nice shots!!!!
Keep up the good work, I'm much of a camera expert, but I just like looking at pictures.
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my first attempt:
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All of your pictures are much better than mine (although now I know what to do differently next time). The macros are amazing, and what an interesting way to enhance these photos. Here is my attempt with my favorite granny smith apple.
 -- from Diseuse - (?)
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Gave it another go with Milk the other day. Here are a couple.
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I got this. :P
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An interesting site of captured fluids is - Liquidsculpture.com
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How about at bathtime?
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