For those who are interested in learning more about the shot:
Shot glass dropped upside down into the aquarium filled with water. Lens set to 70mm. Nikon SB-26 flash coupled with Cactus V2 radio trigger set to 1/64 power and placed behind the glass. A white Ikea chopping board between the flash and the aquarium serves as a diffuser. The sides of the aquarium covered with black card. Camera set in manual mode to 1/500, F/11. Pre-focusing on a kitchen knife inside the aquarium roughly where the glass would be when dropped into the water. Shot in RAW. Image flipped 180 degrees in post-processing.
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This photo immediately caught my eye. I wanted to know how it was done. My guess was a glass upside-down in water but I have no idea how you got such a clean shot and so fast. You must have had some assistance.
I was trying to guess how you set this up but I couldn't see it. Now that I've read your explanation it's clear.(pun). The bubbles should have tipped me off. It's a beautiful shot. You put a lot of work in setting this up; thank you for the details.
Excellent shot, but could you do us a favour and tell us how it was set-up? For many winning shots it is very unnerving to see the empty description. Congratulations with your ribbon, but the level of perfection tells me you are probably used to those.
I just saw this elsewhere. Neat how it's done.. I think having the bubbles run up the side of glass hurt this one (side facing us I mean). Great capture overall though.
Fascinating and well done! (I've been here long enough now that I try to figure these things out - shot glass dropped in water, shot rotated 180 degrees?) Excellent lighting, tones, detail. I do hope you'll post the technical details and perhaps a bit about how you lit this - I'm interested in how you got such great depth of field with such a quick shutter to get the detail in the bubbles so nicely.
Awesome! At first I though it was water pouring out of a glass but it's "air" instead; and what looks like air is actually water! The B&W really adds to this picture. I like that your depth of field is deap enough to include the whole glass and the bubbles. -BB
Very nice! Great tones and clarity. The only minor distraction is that the vignette is not even around the frame. The corners are quite dark in relation to the sides.
Way awesome. Always wanted to try that from the first time I saw Kiwiness' shot and some others. This is a great take. An easy top10 fave from the challenge for me. Great job with the lighting and the shot as a whole. Looks perfect. Good luck :)
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