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some fun dropping a little tomato in water.
Used "open flash" technique: in a dark room, bulb pose and manually triggerd the flash while dropping the tomato.
This week's Strobist Sundays theme was "red".
I've been wanting to try some water drop photos ever since I read about them in this post by David Hobby.
strobist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-photograph-water-dro...
My setup could not have been simpler. I built a scaffold out of some of my daughter's toys and hung a zip-lock bag over a glass casserole pan. I filled the bag with water and punched a very small hole in the bottom to create a steady drip into the pan, which was filled with about a inch of water. I positioned some foam core directly behind the pan and taped a sheet construction paper to it. The paper was illuminated with a single SB-600 fired at 1/16th power. The lit paper reflected off the water's surface and into the camera, which was set on a tripod looking down from about 30 degrees above the plane of the pan. Using this method, I was able produce any color water surface desired by just changing the color of the construction paper. The camera was fired with a remote trigger. I just hit the button when I saw a drop start to fall. This approach produced about a 30% success rate.
A few items of note that you may not read about in the many water drop tutorials on the web:
1. These types of photos look best if you can maximize the reflection off the surface of the water. If you use a light colored or highly reflective pan, light will reflect off the bottom of the tray, obscuring the water surface detail. To avoid this, I simply lined the bottom of the tray with black construction paper before filling it with water.
2. If, like me, you don't have a macro lens or extension tubes, try the zoom and crop method. My kit Nikon zoom had a minimum focusing distance of about 20 inches at 80mm. This is not quite macro territory, but I was able to get closer by cropping off about 40 percent of the frame. In this era of insanely large megapixel counts, you can easily afford to lose half of your frame. These pictured were produced with my modest 6 megapixel Nikon D50.
The result of being addicted to photography and cycling...
Balgach, Switzerland.
Lomo Supersampler
Kodak Ektachrome 400X cross processed, expired
The Air Drop is an air cleaner which uses plant purification for harmful gasses and filter purification for dust and other particles. The Air Drop solar powered air filtration system uses sunlight for energy like plants. The Air Drop makes filtered air more convenient for the city dweller by being hung from the ceiling instead of taking up floor space. Intended to be kept in sight as both a functional and decorative piece, the Air Drop has a high level of self sufficiency, as air plants only need the occasional soak in water.
Country: US
Designer: Jillian Tackaberry
University: BFA of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Submission: electroluxdesignlab.com/en/submission/air-drop/
In what has become a highly-anticipated tradition at Queen’s University, Principal Daniel Woolf and his wife Julie Gordon-Woolf handed out sugar cookies to students preparing for exams.
The duo hand delivered 1,200 cookies at the university's libraries, including the Education Library and Teacher Resource Centre, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Lederman Law Library, Douglas Library and Stauffer Library.
At each location the buzz would build as students awaited their turn, with some commenting that it was their favourite part of exams.
This marked the sixth year for the cookie drop.
Drop Dead Diva Seasons 1-2 DVD Box Set
is the weekly Lifetime television show about a character named Deb, a struggling model that is killed in an accident. When Fred the Gatekeeper calls her shallow she panics and presses a button which sends her back to earth. Deb wakes up in the body of Jane played by Brooke Elliott a Plus size Attorney. By a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb can no longer rely on her fabulous looks to pull her through. Now, the new Jane must confront the challenges of her adventurous new life, love, and career — as well as her curvier frame — in the ultimate showdown of brains and beauty. Drop Dead Diva dvd Premiered on July 12, 2009 with an audience of 2.8 million viewers. The stars are Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Jackson Hurst, Kate Levering, Josh Stamberg and April Bowlby.
A tiny water drop on one of the first dandelions I've seen this year.
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Day 9 is a Macro shot of a water-drop hitting a colorful Martini glass full of water. My awesome wife picked this glass up for me last year for just this purpose.
Equipment used: Canon 5D MKII, Canon 70-200 2.8 L IS, Canon 500d close up filter, Quantum T5d-r with umbrella to camera left (you can see umbrella reflection in droplet). Shot was exposed @ 1/125 of a second @ F16 ISO 600 with the Quantum on full power. The quantum needed to be full power due to the very narrow aperture needed while using the 500d close up filter. It should also be noted that this is only my first attempt (6th frame) at this technique.
come on everybody take a trip with
us
gonna raise some hell gonna raise
a fuss
cost you a dollar if you care to see
so just belly on up and tell me what’ll it be
I’ve got a little something that I
don’t think you’ve tried
no need to run no need to hide
just take a little taste and tell me
what do you see
cause tonight we’re gonna drop a
little NYC
having some fun well all of us are
everyone around you’s gonna be a
star
cause it’s the best and the worst
and it’s life out loud
don’t mind if I preach don’t wanna
get too proud
It’s hard to be humble when it’s all
at your feet
and someday soon it’s gonna
leave the street
they say the truth shall set you
free
so you’re on parole when you’re on
NYC
---Blues Traveler