Have water, will drop. Trying to capture water drops II

Some more interesting formations here.

One of the changes I mad with this set (that I may have mentioned in the previous post) was the height from which the drops fell into the water. My water bottle tends to release several drops @ a time instead of just one, and so the height and volume of the drops combined made for some rather large splash downs!

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Have water, will drop. Trying to capture water drops.

Written by timsdd on Friday, October 10th, 2008 in Photography, Water Drops.

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Have water, will drop. Trying to capture water drops.

The first time I tried capturing water drops I failed horribly…well, it wasn’t pretty or what I envisioned let’s put it that way.

To quote a favorite saying of mine…I was doing it wrong! Each subsequent time I have attempt shooting water drops, I have gained experience and progressed in my ‘skill’.

2 days ago I did another set of drops but it had been such a long time since I shot them the last time…I was a little rusty. Namely I did not change the power settings in my flash units to 1/2 power so that I could take more shots in less time.

I was also trying something different in the dish setup where the drops were landing. It came out “ok” but there was an unattended consequence of the drops being too dark…not enough contrast between the drops and the water.

I did get a lot of interesting formations though. But as far as capturing that “10″ of a water drop, I think I need to keep trying.

I shot 4GB worth of images, of the 300+ captures only ~100 made the cut and even then I got down to 77 after closer inspection. Here are 8 of the 77, (more to come).

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More Pictures of Birds on my door step!

Written by timsdd on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 in Birds in my Backyard, Photography.

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More Pictures of Birds on my door step!

This is the last set of birds that I shot this spring where I was using just the available light (which often times wasn’t that much!).

I think most if not all of them were late afternoon shots so I was shooting out of my dark house into the shade…not really optimal conditions. So keep that in mind while looking at these.

The good news is that came up with a rig for my flash to successfully shoot through my windows without any glare, much better results from those as you will see in future posts.

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