Week 29 - Waterscape
Week 29 – Waterscape
I wanted to be a little bit creative here, thinking outside the box, as well as challenging myself to get beyond my comfort zone, and as I received my new flash gun yesterday, it seemed the perfect opportunity to try out some high speed flash.
I placed a shallow tray of water on a white surface with a blue card behind it. I used one tripod as a frame over the water, with a turkey baster attached with a clamp to it.
Carefully marking out where the droplets were going to hit the water, I manually focussed on that spot.
I originally had the flash gun on a tripod near the water (covered in cling film), but found that my wireless remote appears to have an intermittent fault. I then had to resort to the connecting lead, but it is one of those curly ones, and it was too strong and kept pulling the tripod over, so I ended up having to rely on my beautiful assistant holding my flash gun for me.
Switching all the lights off, I tried to co-ordinate pressing the shutter button on the camera at the same time as the turkey baster. It was a lot of trial and error, but in the end I got a couple of pictures which I was pleased with out of the 150 I took, this being one of them.
The crown you can see in the image is cause by two water droplets colliding – one on its way up after splashing, the other on its way down.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D IV
Lens: Canon 100-400mm II
Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/16
Shutter speed 1/4
ISO: 100
Flash: Canon 430EX III-RT
Mode: Manual
Power: 1/64
Post processed in Photoshop, removing some stray droplets in the background and smoothing out the colour a little, plus levels, hue and sharpening.
Week 29 - Waterscape
Week 29 – Waterscape
I wanted to be a little bit creative here, thinking outside the box, as well as challenging myself to get beyond my comfort zone, and as I received my new flash gun yesterday, it seemed the perfect opportunity to try out some high speed flash.
I placed a shallow tray of water on a white surface with a blue card behind it. I used one tripod as a frame over the water, with a turkey baster attached with a clamp to it.
Carefully marking out where the droplets were going to hit the water, I manually focussed on that spot.
I originally had the flash gun on a tripod near the water (covered in cling film), but found that my wireless remote appears to have an intermittent fault. I then had to resort to the connecting lead, but it is one of those curly ones, and it was too strong and kept pulling the tripod over, so I ended up having to rely on my beautiful assistant holding my flash gun for me.
Switching all the lights off, I tried to co-ordinate pressing the shutter button on the camera at the same time as the turkey baster. It was a lot of trial and error, but in the end I got a couple of pictures which I was pleased with out of the 150 I took, this being one of them.
The crown you can see in the image is cause by two water droplets colliding – one on its way up after splashing, the other on its way down.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D IV
Lens: Canon 100-400mm II
Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/16
Shutter speed 1/4
ISO: 100
Flash: Canon 430EX III-RT
Mode: Manual
Power: 1/64
Post processed in Photoshop, removing some stray droplets in the background and smoothing out the colour a little, plus levels, hue and sharpening.