Water Fun

[PKMax]

Still don't have this quite right, it's bleeding hard lol.
but this is my results from last night after taking 300+ photos

Technique..
Saucepan full of water (will try something different next time, can see the pan in the back of the photo too much)

Lighting
Florescent desklamp to the right, Halogen desklamp to the left and behind, on camera flash with a homemade paper "snoot" which was bent at end to bound light down. (hard to explain, I'll take a photo of it later lol)

all taken at 1/500 (the fastest I can go with the flash on.)




it was fun, and made much easier with my "Tether" app set to fire the camera every 2 seconds hehe.

[Travis]

Nice Work!!

I tried (unsuccessfully) to simulate this same project for our "beer" assignment in the summer. It was a fun project though. The 1/500 flash sync really helps this one.... what are you shooting with? a D40?

[PKMax]

Cheers I quite enjoyed doing this, and will play some more with this too heh.

and shooting with a D50, which I love

[Marko]

Nice experimentation! These are SO hard to do well - shot 3 is really cool! IMO It needs 10-15 minutes more of post (levels - dodging - cloning out spots on Bkgd) and it goes from cool to excellent.

Just curious - how come so blue?

[tirediron]

I agree with Marko's assessment; good capture, with just a little more time needed in post. I think it might also be worth seeing what you can do to lessen the amount of blue in the image. You weren't set to Tu WB by any chance were you?

[Ben H]

Excellent! Love this stuff!

It wasn't much of a critique, though I guess