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As well as being my picture of the day, this is my contribution to this week's Macro Mondays group theme of Rainbow: 15/04/2013.
To shoot this, I used three external flashguns, each covered with two differently coloured, overlapping flash gels! This should have given a combination of nine colours altogether!
I may try this again tomorrow, as it wasn't until the end of the shoot that I realised that I must have knocked my tripod, and nearly all of my shots were out of focus, even though they looked fine on the rear of the camera!
Oh well, at least this one was okay!
HMM! :)
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Another one using a combination of two different coloured overlapping flash gels on three external flashguns to get a combination of nine different colours!
I managed to do today's shoot without knocking the tripod too!
Happy days! :)
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My photstream was starting to look a bit colourless so I thought I'd better remedy it by uploading this more colourful water drop collision shot with pink and blue gels attached to my flashguns!
I thought I'd post the link to my video of how I'm taking these water drop shots again, as I haven't done so in a while!
I must apologise that I haven't finished the blog yet! I thought I'd have it done by mid March, but as work has escalated, it's now looking more like April. Sorry about that!
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At the risk of boring you with water droplet shots, here's an outtake from todays session with my improved lighting set-up and bigger drip tray!
The bigger tray gives me more scope to get decent reflections, and the two external flash lighting system allows me to use different coloured gels on each flashgun to get this two toned effect!
Overall, I'm really pleased how things are progressing!
Actually, it's amazing how many keepers I'm getting! Usually when I do this type of photography, I take about a hundred shots to get one keeper - at the moment, I'm getting a keeper nearly every time!
Of course, this means I've got quite a few shots to post here over the coming months, so you won't escape them even when my P365 month of water shots finishes! :)
So I'm one day down in taking my double course of antibiotics, and I'm feeling no better at all! The Doc tells me it will take a few days for them to work, so I guess I'll have to be a more patient patient!
This is the first time in a long while that I didn't manage to catch a decent collision, but, luckily, when reviewing the images on the back of the camera, I spotted this water crown!
If nothing else, it's something different!
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This evening I've been processing some of the hundreds of water splash images I've taken this year!
With well over 500 still to go, I don't feel like I've made even the smallest dent in the backlog!
Anyway, I thought this one looked like someone holding up and looking through a circular window! :)
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It took these chives nearly six weeks to germinate, which has to be some sort of record, but now they've arrived, they're making up for lost time rather quickly!
I thought they'd make a nice addition to my Abstract Nature series for this month! :)
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I decided to resort to another cactus macro for my Abstract Nature theme today!
I had fun and games with trying to focus on the spikes once more, with the Sony NEX-7 determined to focus in a completely different place to where I wanted, despite the camera being set to manual focus mode!
I was quite happy with the end result this time around though! :)
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I think February is going to be a wet month - if not outside, then at least in my 365 day project shots! :)
This is water from the tap flowing into a bowl...
...shot with a yellow gel over the flash! My water supply may not be perfect, but it's not disgusting! :)
I was spoilt for choice with water drop collisions today, and I had a really tough time choosing which one to upload for my picture of the day!
In the end, I went for this one, because it's the first time I've seen a dome form while the collision is taking place! I think this is because I mixed some glycerine with the water, but can't be one hundred percent sure! I need to do more experiments!
Anyway, I quite like the effect, so experimenting with more glycerine in my water drippy thing will be what I'll be doing in the coming week! :)
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Finally, I've hit upon a set-up that allows me to get water drop collisions - even with my makeshift valve in place!
This is the type of shot I'd like to get more consistently as I find them fascinating!
I've still got a lot to learn though! As you can see, I've nailed the focus of the initial splash, but of course, when there's a collision, the water gets closer to the camera, so the focus needs to be adjusted to account for that!
This was the first collision I've recorded with my set-up, and as such, it had to be my photo of the day!
The sun had brought the hoverflies out in great numbers again today, although they were finding it slim pickings in my garden finding anything that was producing pollen!
As usual, the weeds came to the rescue, and this little one seemed happy enough with his meal!
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It's been almost a year since I tried shooting smoke rising from an incense stick - so I thought I'd have another go at it!
Last time I wrote this blog post about how I did it, which is pretty much the same as how I achieved it this time, other than I used live view to focus on the smoke...
I thought this one looked a bit like a sea horse, hence the title! :)
I had fun with the high key lighting group theme last week, and learned quite a lot about my water drop rig's lighting set-up! So, this week I decided to try and concentrate on reflections of drips, drops, splashes and collisions!
I decided to use two external flashguns, situated left and right behind my translucent acrylic backdrop, and shoot from a slightly higher viewpoint!
I also tried rotating my camera into a portrait orientation, which although made the camera almost impossible to use, means I get much more coverage above and below the splash!
This wasn't actually the type of shot I was going for, but it turned out to be my favourite for the day!
I took a similar shot back in February (see below) that I didn't include in my P365, but I think this one has much better lighting, and the droplet is a lot sharper, so it deserves to make the cut! :)
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Okay, this time you're definitely going to think I'm going bonkers!
Every time I look at this shot I see a monk, dressed in a habit, free falling through the air, just about to pull the rip chord on his parachute!
See, I told you! Bonkers! :)
My cellulitis has really put a go slow on processing any images other than my project 365 stuff in the last week!
However, this evening I've managed to process a few springtime images from last weekend, of which this grape hyacinth was one of my favourites!
HFF! :)
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