What do you see?

[niteclicks]

I have my ideas, but I'll let you go first.

 

[saigon]

nice catch! looks like a better variant for the Oscar statuette ))

 

[300D]

You have woken some water spirits.
Treat them respectfully; they can be tricky and very mischievous. If you upset them they could replace your Bokeh with noise or worse.

Great shots, thanks for sharing them.

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Please share how you set this shot up.

 

[niteclicks]

I did not take any pictures of the setup. I use a Camera Axe it is an an Arduino based camera trigger with lots of options including a water valve. In these shots I used a piece of black lexan for the backdrop a blue and red gelled flash on opposite sides and a flash off camera. These were actually quite accidental, but that makes water drop shooting fun, no two are exactly alike. I don't use a completely dark room but dark enough for 2-3 second exposures, the flashes freeze everything ( use manual lowest setting ).

 

[canon_guy]

amazing! I see a crystal vase

 

[canon_guy]

what technique do you use?

 

[niteclicks]

what I was actually doing here was trying to maximize the height of the spout and increase the colliding drop size. I went to far and got more of a dribble for the second drop. I used a homemade piezo sensor to detect the first drop hitting the tank then varied the time till flash from there, I think these were like 200 milli second after first contact. The Camera axe makes this fairly easy and the piezo sensor makes it very repeatable. There is a lot of information on the Camera Axe forums. Oh and I was seeing about the same things as everyone else.

 

[canon_guy]

what I was actually doing here was trying to maximize the height of the spout and increase the colliding drop size. I went to far and got more of a dribble for the second drop. I used a homemade piezo sensor to detect the first drop hitting the tank then varied the time till flash from there, I think these were like 200 milli second after first contact. The Camera axe makes this fairly easy and the piezo sensor makes it very repeatable. There is a lot of information on the Camera Axe forums. Oh and I was seeing about the same things as everyone else.

thank you for sharing) useful information for me)