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Flash - 2 Tripods - a background on paper

Greg

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Hi !
Yesterday I tried water drop experience.
I spend 2-3 hours on it.
So I wan't to share with you my experiences, and my skills upgrade.
I will try to share with you my upgrade, shooting water drops.

Let's start !

MY SETUP

In the kitchen, A big plate on a bathroom sink
A tripod, a bag with water, I made a hole with a pin
My camera : Panasonic GX80
My Lens : Olympus 60mm 2.8 Macro
My Flash : Godox TT350 O
All on a second tripod

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THE PICS

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ISO 800 - F/10 - 1/160s

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F/10 - 1/800s - ISO 400

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I Used blue filter on flash F/10 1/800s ISO 400

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Same parameters

MY FAVORITES

Blood bath

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Glass Color

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CONCLUSION

It was hard ! I never tried my flash before but it's a HSS flash so, it's good to go more than 1/250s

I know it's not perfect, but I'm happy for a "first time"

SPECIAL THANKS

Little-em Little-em for the idea using a glass and your pictures !
Aaron for your tips that I'll use for my second experience later :p
 

Helix_2648

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I've never tried this before but maybe you should ask BrianG BrianG or Andy Taylor LRPS Andy Taylor LRPS.

 
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Chavezshutter

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Greg Greg These are fantastic!! I love this type of stuff. Most of the photos are water drop photography, the last 3 are refraction and my tips apply only to those last 3. It's going to be hard to balance getting enough light for the refraction while keeping your shutter fast enough for the falling drop. When I tried waterdrop photography I used 1/200 sec with flash to freeze the water drop and when i do refraction my shutter is usually 1/3 sec or slower. If you got a remote trigger for the flash and point your flash at the painting in the background it may work. Of all things i see on this forum seeing people try out new things is one of my favourite things:) so well done👏👏👏
 
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Little-em

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Your welcome Greg Greg always happy to help and give out some tips and tricks. The next trick is to use food colouring or milk mixed with water. And yes Andy Taylor LRPS Andy Taylor LRPS is the master of water photography especially water droplets. Great images. Keep trying an they will get better.