WaterDrops-5

This is the third out of the six Challenges I've received from my friend in the U.K. You can look in my Photostream and see "Macro" and 'Bottles" to see the other two.

 

The other two were easily staged and photographed, this one was a bit more of a challenge.

 

Strobist Info:

Three YN560IIs, one left and one right at an equal height to the spray, and one low in the background, pointing up towards the spray. All had Pale Gold Rosco filters and were at 1/32 power, but as you can see, the filters didn't really do the job very well. Such is life.

 

All were fired with Pixel Soldiers.

 

The Setup was since the strobes were facing each other, I ran a piece of cord across between the two, and used that as a focus point, manually focusing the camera. The strobes were maybe 4 feet apart.

 

Using a Pixel Oppilas transmitter and receiver, I was able to sit on the floor, and point the spray bottle up into the air and pull the trigger. The problem with that, of course, is I couldn't determine how out of focus it was until I got back to my computer and looked. You'll notice that the nozzle on the bottle and parts of my hand are out of focus, and some of the water, but as it spreads out, some comes into focus, and then goes out again.

 

This was shot with a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, wide open, and 1/160th of a second and ISO 100. I probably could have increased the ISO to 200, or increased the flash power to get a shutter speed of 1/250th, but I like the 'rainfall' aspect of the photo, and wanted to see the drops up long enough to see them start to move a bit.

 

Comments are welcome, of course.

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