Bill Gracey 31 Million Views
Blue Splash
I decided to play around with drops and strobes today, so I prepared by going to the University of Youtube, and watched a wonderful tutorial by Gavin Hoey. This is watered down blue acrylic paint that has been expelled from an eye dropper and dropped on a piece of white lucite board. Here is the link to that video, if you'd like to see it done properly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAM9H8uSN-A
Strobist Info: There's a setup taken in my garage below in the comments. I propped a white piece of board behind the board the paint was dropping on to and pointed a bare YNN560 from camera left and a bare YN560-II camera right at that board so that the light on the drop was bounced off of that board and illuminated the drop. I ran a bar over the board with an eye dropper duct taped to it and squeezed that to start the drop on its way to the board. I then pressed a remote trigger to fire the camera and the flash. I took over 100 pictures and got maybe 4 useable images. I had intended to use a laser trigger to fire the flash when the drop passed thought the beam, but I couldn't make it work. Probably pilot error. I'll try again. The strobes were in manual mode at 1/32 power and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. If I practice more and get my laser trigger to work, I think I can do much better.
I've played around with drops and emulsion before, using different techniques, and those pictures are in my Drops/Bubbles set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157625432239555/
Blue Splash
I decided to play around with drops and strobes today, so I prepared by going to the University of Youtube, and watched a wonderful tutorial by Gavin Hoey. This is watered down blue acrylic paint that has been expelled from an eye dropper and dropped on a piece of white lucite board. Here is the link to that video, if you'd like to see it done properly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAM9H8uSN-A
Strobist Info: There's a setup taken in my garage below in the comments. I propped a white piece of board behind the board the paint was dropping on to and pointed a bare YNN560 from camera left and a bare YN560-II camera right at that board so that the light on the drop was bounced off of that board and illuminated the drop. I ran a bar over the board with an eye dropper duct taped to it and squeezed that to start the drop on its way to the board. I then pressed a remote trigger to fire the camera and the flash. I took over 100 pictures and got maybe 4 useable images. I had intended to use a laser trigger to fire the flash when the drop passed thought the beam, but I couldn't make it work. Probably pilot error. I'll try again. The strobes were in manual mode at 1/32 power and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. If I practice more and get my laser trigger to work, I think I can do much better.
I've played around with drops and emulsion before, using different techniques, and those pictures are in my Drops/Bubbles set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157625432239555/