MaxShock
14092013_1
Something new I am trying. :o)
For the setup of this I had a plastic bowl with a soap bubble floating on it and dropped the water using my home-made controller. 2 Yongnuo 460 flashguns behind the tray with coloured gels on them and at the lowest power setting. Nikon D3200 with a 70-200 zoom at about 100mm with a 12mm extension tube. F14. Camera was about 1 meter from the subject. The splash liquid was water with some food colouring.
Basically the shot is done by dropping 2 very carefully timed drops of water from about 40cm above the water in the bowl through the soap film and into the bowl. I use a homemade microcontroller to do this (see my Waterdrop Setup set for some pics of it).
www.flickr.com/photos/65011899@N04/sets/72157630332326342/
The first drop hits the water in the bowl and causes a splashback column of water to rise upward (as seen at the bottom of the shot) the 2nd drop (falling about 120 milliseconds behind the 1st drop) then impacts onto that column (with a bit of luck) causing the splat effect.
I use a laserbeam tripwire I made to detect when the drops fall and trigger the flashguns.
I used almost no post-processing in this. I just used PaintshopPro9 to clone out a few stray out of focus droplets and adjusted the saturation slightly. I was lucky enough to capture the image full-frame so didn't need to do any cropping.
Thanks for all the views and comments. Very much appreciated!
Steve
14092013_1
Something new I am trying. :o)
For the setup of this I had a plastic bowl with a soap bubble floating on it and dropped the water using my home-made controller. 2 Yongnuo 460 flashguns behind the tray with coloured gels on them and at the lowest power setting. Nikon D3200 with a 70-200 zoom at about 100mm with a 12mm extension tube. F14. Camera was about 1 meter from the subject. The splash liquid was water with some food colouring.
Basically the shot is done by dropping 2 very carefully timed drops of water from about 40cm above the water in the bowl through the soap film and into the bowl. I use a homemade microcontroller to do this (see my Waterdrop Setup set for some pics of it).
www.flickr.com/photos/65011899@N04/sets/72157630332326342/
The first drop hits the water in the bowl and causes a splashback column of water to rise upward (as seen at the bottom of the shot) the 2nd drop (falling about 120 milliseconds behind the 1st drop) then impacts onto that column (with a bit of luck) causing the splat effect.
I use a laserbeam tripwire I made to detect when the drops fall and trigger the flashguns.
I used almost no post-processing in this. I just used PaintshopPro9 to clone out a few stray out of focus droplets and adjusted the saturation slightly. I was lucky enough to capture the image full-frame so didn't need to do any cropping.
Thanks for all the views and comments. Very much appreciated!
Steve