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I had a wonderful photo shoot with this little guy. He was so cooperative. He was placed gently back in the garden after we were finished.
Droplet on a gerbera!
This picture hangs on the wall of my parents (120 x 80cm canvas)
I like it because the colors are kind of explosive :D
EXIFs:
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
+ Vivitar 2x AF MC 7 Pro High Definition Teleconverter
f/2.8
1/100s
ISO 200
tripod, no flash
[v2 - 2014/05/29 - new signature]
Hi, everyone :)
I'm so sorry for my inactivity, but my Wi-Fi was broken... It kinda took ages for the repair :D
But now I'm back in the modernity ;D
Here's a cherry blossom for you! Happy Easter!
EXIFs:
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
f/2.8
1/800s
ISO 100
no tripod, no flash
Tra le meraviglie nascoste sulle spiagge di Zanzibar, questa struttura naturale cattura lo sguardo con la sua precisione.
Ogni cella racconta di ordine e armonia, in una trama geometrica che sembra disegnata da un architetto invisibile.
Guardandola da vicino, ci ricorda che la perfezione esiste anche nelle piccole cose.
È la bellezza matematica del mondo vivente.
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I used the Speedlite 430EX ll at the rear behind frosted glass with red gel and the Speedlite 580 EX ll from the side, with a blue gel. Just plain water used for this.
An amazing song by 10 Years!
I felt like processing a few old pictures. For some reason I can't explain I love this simple photo I took a while ago.
Feedback is very welcomed - as always :)
Have a nice day!
EXIFs:
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
f/1.8
1/1600s
ISO 100
no tripod, no flash
Two drops of milk into some tea. One drop hits the tea and comes back up forming a spout - then the next one lands on the one coming up, forming an umbrella collision. This one hit dead center and was caught at full form before the little droplets on the rim start to detach.
"This Celluloid Dream" by AFI.
Extinguished matchstick.
EXIFs:
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
f/10
1/80s
ISO 100
tripod, external flash @ 1/32
In this set all the drops had smooth edges. I used "Almond Breeze" milk for this one. Might explain the smoothness.
I just got a new computer (PC with Windows 7) and new monitor, so now everything looks different than it was. Some of my drops look lighter and some darker. Will have to adjust.
This reminded someone of one of those toys you turn inside out and watch it pop up into the air.
Resized as per some good advice :-)
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).
This is another photo from my series "droplets on a feather".
I guess it's clear why it's called "Dreamland" :D
(Magnification ratio ~2:1)
The last few days I worked on a new signature for my images. Here's the result!
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EXIFs:
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
+ Raynox DCR-250
f/3.5
2.5s
ISO 100
tripod, no flash
Closeup of a little friend I found on an garden flower. He was placed back in the flower bed after his photo shoot.
It appears that flower's hues and colours symbolise :
Yellow: Joy and happines
Pink: Youth innocence and joy
White: Simple beauty
Green: Health and resilience
The hues and colours on this beautiful tulip capture capture a kaleidescope of wonderful symbols.
Thumbs up to my lovely step daughter Sam Fonberg, who with her green thumb delicately peeled back this flower's petals to optimise her beauty !
Peace out et bon Jeudi à tous
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