Double Splash
So this took me pretty much all day to figure out how to do and make it work.
Again, playing around with a bit of science here. When a drop of water falls into a fairly deep pan of water, the water first goes way down and then like a rubber band, it springs back up because of the surface tension and sends the drop of water, or in this case milk with a bit of food color in it back up into the air, but what happened here was two more drops of water were falling down directly in line with the first one and impacted into the column of water and milk rising upward and caused these beautiful splashes of water.
I don't own one of those fancy and expensive water drop/splash kits that times everything out for you.
I did this all manually. First, I start with a two second shutter delay to get my hands in the right spots. Then the camera is set to a two second exposure which gives me time to do all the other things. The plunger gets pressed, drops come out, they fall, hit the water and I fire the flash trigger. The flash unit is off to the right side and set to a very small bust, 1/128th power. This is also a very fast burst of light and so it stops all the motion of the splash.
The colors in the background is the reflection of a shiny piece of art paper reflecting a small, adjustable LED panel light onto the waters surface..
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens.
Double Splash
So this took me pretty much all day to figure out how to do and make it work.
Again, playing around with a bit of science here. When a drop of water falls into a fairly deep pan of water, the water first goes way down and then like a rubber band, it springs back up because of the surface tension and sends the drop of water, or in this case milk with a bit of food color in it back up into the air, but what happened here was two more drops of water were falling down directly in line with the first one and impacted into the column of water and milk rising upward and caused these beautiful splashes of water.
I don't own one of those fancy and expensive water drop/splash kits that times everything out for you.
I did this all manually. First, I start with a two second shutter delay to get my hands in the right spots. Then the camera is set to a two second exposure which gives me time to do all the other things. The plunger gets pressed, drops come out, they fall, hit the water and I fire the flash trigger. The flash unit is off to the right side and set to a very small bust, 1/128th power. This is also a very fast burst of light and so it stops all the motion of the splash.
The colors in the background is the reflection of a shiny piece of art paper reflecting a small, adjustable LED panel light onto the waters surface..
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens.