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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



THE PICS


ISO 800 - F/10 - 1/160s


F/10 - 1/800s - ISO 400


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


Same parameters

MY FAVORITES

Blood bath




Glass Color





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 for the idea using a glass and your pictures !
Aaron for your tips that I'll use for my second experience later
 
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Helix_2648

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

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Splash art tutorial. All my splash art images are created with the Splash art kit 2, My camera is the Nikon D300s, exposure is, Mirror up, F/11-F/16. The shutter is controlled by a control box. The splash art kit releases two drops at one time to enable the collision of both drops. I use...
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Chavezshutter

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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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Greg

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Thank you very much Chavezshutter ! For my second try I will put my flash on remote mode and try to target the background listening your advice ^^ thx again !
 
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Little-em

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Your welcome 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 is the master of water photography especially water droplets. Great images. Keep trying an they will get better.
 
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