If you have seen my profile, you probably know i'm into water drop photography. It my favorite form of photography. I have been filling my sink with water, turning on the focet jusrt a little bit. And capturing some pretty dul shots. How can I fix this?
You can check out some my shots in my portfolio. The way I get better color is two drip into a bowl or plate. I put one color into the bowl, and then drip a different color using a medicine dropper into the bowl. Food coloring works great. Try dropping milk into colored water, that also gives a cool effect.
Thanky ou for the help. But I don't know how I can drop something from an eye droper and take a picture at the same time. it seems kind of difficult to do. Besides... What should I use to hold the eye droper in place above my plate of coffe, water, milk etc.
Well what I do isn't probably very sophisticated but I place the camera on a tripod withing reach of where I'm dropping the water. Then I lay a pencil or ruler across the area of the bowl I want the drop to be. I go back to the camera and focus on the front edge of the pencil. Then with my right hand I hold the dropper about 1-2 feet above the bowl as close to the place I focused on as possible. Then with my left hand I press the shutter button while simultaneaously dripping the water. I usually shoot around 450 photos and only end up with maybe 15-20 decent ones and only 2-4 really good ones.
I think how it works is you get some off camera flashes and set them to low power, 1/32 or 1/64th power and set the shutter to 1/200th a sec. Set the camera on a tripod and prefocus to where the drops fall. and then put it on manual focus and leave it. The key to getting the nice splashes is to not have a very deep pool of water. For example this shot has no water for the splash. :) There are more sophisticated ways to do it but this should work. Hope it helps
Well what I do isn't probably very sophisticated but I place the camera on a tripod withing reach of where I'm dropping the water. Then I lay a pencil or ruler across the area of the bowl I want the drop to be. I go back to the camera and focus on the front edge of the pencil. Then with my right hand I hold the dropper about 1-2 feet above the bowl as close to the place I focused on as possible. Then with my left hand I press the shutter button while simultaneaously dripping the water. I usually shoot around 450 photos and only end up with maybe 15-20 decent ones and only 2-4 really good ones.
Coleman,
This is the way I do it too. One hand on the dropper and the other on the shutter button. I also focus manually to where I hope the drops will land. It really is trial and error and you need a lot of patience. When I first started doing these drop shots, I literaly did thousands and thousands before I came even close to the way I can get them now (on a good day ;-). Unfortunately, there is no consistancy or sure fire way in regularly getting good high speed liquid shots but it sure is a lot of fun trying.
Good luck!
