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30/52: I'm a bit behind on posting but I have still been shooting, I promise! I shot this earlier this month at Windansea Beach in La Jolla.
My first experiment with water drops with my new Fuji X-M1.
All my kitchen project photos are in this album:-
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Elegant Tern performing a fishing technique I dubbed splash & grab. Basically, instead of performing the classic dive, the tern pushes the water with its chest leading the fish to the water surface then grabs it. It goes fast!!!
Bolsa Chica(CA)
Canon EOS 7D2 @ 400mm ---- 1/4000s--- f/7.1--- ISO 400
Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/320sec - 96mm - ISO 320
Rain chains are a beautiful and functional alternative to traditional, closed gutter downspouts. Guiding rain water visibly down chains or cups from the roof to the ground, rain chains transform a plain gutter downspout into a pleasing water feature. From the soft tinkling of individual droplets to the soothing rush of white water, they are a treat to listen to.
Rain chains (‘kusari doi’ in Japanese) in concept are not a new idea. For hundreds of years, the Japanese have used the roof of their homes to collect water, transporting it downward with chains and finally depositing the rain water into large barrels for household water usage. Japanese temples often incorporate quite ornate and large rain chains into their design.
These chains can be made from decorative metal cups, the chain in the photo however is a heavy-duty linked chain that deposits the rain water from a part of the roof into my garden pond.
When you want more info about different kinds of rain chains:
I'm really pleased with how this came out. The background needed a little work to smooth it out but in the end it turned out nicely :)
It's just water.. kinda :) 2 drops milliseconds apart.
Vivitar 285 set to minimum power with blue gel behind splash, Vivitar 283 with no gel sat on top of the 285. Fired through frosted perspex at a 30 degree angle into the water.
Hope you like it.. please comment and let me know what you think!
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Ich danke allen Besuchern und Freunden meines Fotostreams für eure Kommentare und Kritiken, Einladungen und Favoriten.
I thank all visitors and friends of my photostream, for your comments and reviews, invitations and favorites
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Splash in a bottle
Playing tonight and trying to do something different, I managed to get the drip into the neck of the bottle but I don't really think this was the best shape of bottle to use. Just because I like a bit of colour I added gels to the speedlights but then reduced the saturation in processing.
Bombo Headland, Kiama, Australia. Just a two-hour drive south of Sydney, Bombo Headland offers one of Australia’s most surreal coastal landscapes. The headland is sculpted by dramatic cliffs and striking basalt columns—remnants of ancient volcanic activity that now stand like nature’s own cathedral.
At sunrise, the scene transforms into pure magic. The clouds ignite with warm hues of gold and crimson, casting a celestial glow over the rugged terrain. Waves surge through the narrow gaps between the basalt formations, erupting into spectacular splashes that shimmer in the morning light.
I took some pictures of some water droplets yesterday for a first time in a while. It took quite a bit of time (and 989 photos on quick-shoot) to get the shot I wanted but I got it in the end. Happy Slider Sunday! :)
This is a photo of a drop of milk (actually half & half) splashing into food coloring. It took a while to figure out how to do splash photos, so thought I would share how it was done.
The photo was taken in total darkness (basement), with light from 2 Speedlite flashes fired remotely about 6-8 inches from the drops. Flash setting was using Manual mode at 1/16 power.
The surface is a piece of glass that I painted black and placed on a table. Black foam board sheets were placed on the back and sides of the work area. The milk drops were released from an eyedropper mounted above the black glass.
Use manual focus, so first you need to get a good focus. I did this by releasing a single drop from the eye dropper, then placed a flat head screw at the front of the drop, and used that to get my focus. Once you get the focus right, you shouldn't have to do this step again unless you move something.
Carefully add a couple other milk drops to the one that has splashed (use a different eye dropper, not the one that is mounted). Add a drop or two of food color. Now comes the hard part. With one hand, release one drop from the eye dropper, and with the other hand, release the shutter using a remote. At first I was able to capture a successful splash only about one out of 50 shots, but now I can do it about one out of 3. At the beginning, it's sometimes difficult to determine whether you are pressing the remote button too soon or too late.
You have to clean up the drops occasionally, as they get muddled. Re-apply a few drops of fresh milk and food color.
Sometimes the splashes are more crown shaped than the one shown above. Other times they are entirely small droplets. All make interesting photos.
A few hints:
- You need enough light to see the drop that you are releasing from the dropper. Since it was totally dark, I used one of those red light flashlights attached to an extra tripod. The red light was aimed directly at the dropper, trying to minimize the light falling at the splash surface. If you don't have one of those lights, they are also helpful when doing night photography. White light may give you too much ambient light.
- As mentioned, I used half & half (half milk and half cream). Skim milk is too thin. I didn't try whole milk, but that may be too thin as well. I got good results with the half & half, so did not try whole cream. That may be too thick.
- Try different food color drops. If using multiple colors together, you may want to try it without placing the drops on top of each other. Try the standard liquid food coloring to begin. It normally comes in red, blue, green, and yellow. The Liqua-Gel drops come in more colors, but are quite difficult to work with because they are thicker.
- The distance from the dropper to the surface is a factor in the size of the splash. It was about 18 inches in my setup.
- High speed photography requires low flash power. Low flash power gives fast flash duration, which is what you want (think of a fast flash duration, when applied to high-speed photography, as somewhat analogous to a fast shutter speed). Try 1/16 flash power to start. If you need more light, try 1/8. Powers of anything more than that will usually be too high.
- Because you are using low flash power, you are minimizing the actual amount of light produced, so therefore need the flash units to be close to the splash.
- You want the splash to be illuminated only by the flash, not from any ambient light. I did this in the basement and at night.
- If you are not getting enough light at 1/16 flash power, it could be because of the previous 2 bullets, and could also be because the batteries in the flash are drained too much.
- I tried an aperture of f/16 at the beginning, and it didn't give me enough depth of field. f/22 was better, but I also moved the camera back a little from my minimum focus distance to give me a little more DOF.
- Shutter speed is the Max Sync Speed, which you can set in your flash menu settings in your camera. Note in the EXIF for this photo, that the shutter speed is 1/250. That was the Max Sync Speed for this camera (the number varies by camera). Understanding why a shutter speed this slow gives you the results needed for high-speed photography is very complex, and took me a long time to understand it.
This was supposed to be my winter photo project, but I was too anxious to wait. This was my third day working on this, and the photos got better each day. It's fun, so I'll keep at it for a while and will put up other photos later (note: I have added additional photos right before this one in my Photostream).
Lawn Sprinklers open or just cars going by, one can never be too careful if there is water on the road; you may just get wet.
Lime suspended by needle and thread. I forgot to take the setup shot before i already cleaned up. 1 Nikon Sb80dx with gel aimed at the background at 1/4th power, another Sb80dx aimed at the fruit at 1/32nd power. Fired by pocket wizards
Canon 7d + Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 love
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Built this one a year ago, just stumbled upon the picture when I was organizing some files. I never uploaded it thinking I'd redo it (the legs/skirt part is dreadful), but didn't get around to it.
Here is another Cookie Splash!
We made this here this morning with this Starbucks Coffee Cup. It was just so funny taking this picture, we had a few problems at the beginning, I wasn't able to capture it the way we wanted so we tryed it a couple of times, until we took this one here. It isn't such a big splash like the others we made but exactly this makes this picture so interessting, the splash looks really crazy, it was just the beginning of it.
This picture was also made with one shot. Feel free to comment, if you like it please add it to your faves.
I was wading in the surf again on June 18, 2026, 6:31:27 p.m.! So, I was bending over and trying to get a picture of my foot when I accidentally got surf splashed in the face!
A splash of colour in this long exposure as the setting sun eventually decided to spread some colour amongst the grey. In a rush to change my location I placed my camera at an angle...hence the narrow crop. This is a 93 second exposure (I cut it short by mistake but I think it works well anyway)
This image, which I have not shared before, has been a personal favorite for a long time. I felt like my photo stream could use a splash of color today.
Splashes of color for you. This is a compilation of three photographs. The bottom layer I made in Dynamic Auto Painter using a HeavyHD template. The middle layer is a photo of downtown I took a few days ago. I thought it went well with the splashes of color I created. The top layer I created again in Dynamic Auto Painter using another HD template. After I flattened all the layers, I used the Orton effect in Photoshop 10, and voila!! I hope you like it!
This was one of those endeavors where everything just clicked. I made this in about ten or fifteen minutes. Sometimes I can play around for hours and come up with nothing...