Splash

This is from my first ever venture into water droplet photography and what a way to spend an evening. I had a small plastic bottle with two holes in and a cocktail stick jammed in the top hole to control the flow of drips. These then dripped into a metal cake tin which was propped up inside a large plastic box to catch the overflow. I had a mirror one side and a Canon 430 EX flash on the other and a Portaflash unit, hand held and pointing in any number of directions to see what would happen with the lighting. Both flashes were fired using a cheap wireless trigger. The settings were 250th/sec @ f11, white balance set to tungsten and the 430EX was at 1/64th power and the Portaflash @ 1/4 power. I then manually focused, switched the lights off and fired away. The neighbours must've thought I had a lightening storm in my kitchen.

I think the two light areas in the water are where the flash reflected back off the metal cake tin, so I'll have to find a more suitable container.

The second shot is the RAW shot with nothing done to it except resizing and saving to web.

Much respect to those who can do this properly.

Title:	Splash
Username:	Paintman
Uploaded:	31 Jan 2010 - 5:58 PM
Camera:	Canon EOS 40D
Lens:	Canon 100mm Macro
Recording media:	RAW (digital)
Tags:	Close-up / macro, Flash / lighting, Specialist / abstract
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