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Water Drops

Postby Bindii on Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:56 pm

Its amazing what I can occupy myself with on a boring afternoon at home...

water droplets falling into a glass..:)

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Postby mic on Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:00 pm

Great effort and I like them a lot, but with a bit more experimenting I think you could do better.

A bit more sharp & more of a wider angle to show a ripple effect maybe.

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Postby Bindii on Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:05 pm

mic wrote:Great effort and I like them a lot, but with a bit more experimenting I think you could do better.

A bit more sharp & more of a wider angle to show a ripple effect maybe.

Mic :wink:


Good idea...I will make a point to try the wider angle....it was my first attempt at this sort of shot..and to be honest with you I only shot about 25 frames...yup I bore easily..lol..

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Postby Yi-P on Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:06 pm

Great try!!

You may want to get some more brighter colour for the background for next try.

And maybe some splashes and waves from the drops?
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Postby Ady on Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:12 pm

They look awesome (last one in particular). That's a good productive thing to occupy yourself with, better than watching TV or something crazy.
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Postby casnell on Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:40 pm

Wow! Great way to pass a boring time, I love them ! Wish i had more time to play with my camera...

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Congratulations

Postby zafra52 on Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:28 pm

Congratulations, Bindii. They are all great images and I wish I could be as good as you. For some reason I prefer number 2, but don't ask me why...
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Re: Congratulations

Postby Bindii on Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:14 pm

zafra52 wrote:Congratulations, Bindii. They are all great images and I wish I could be as good as you. For some reason I prefer number 2, but don't ask me why...


It wasnt hard at all Zafra..Pm me if you want the specs on how I did it if you want to give it a shot :)

And yes...I like number 2 also...probably because the format is different...in hindsight I should have taken more in this format...oh well we live and learn dont we.
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Postby MattyO on Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:20 pm

Really creative work. Ive tried a few water drop shots, but none have ever turned out that well. How many times did you have to try for those?
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Postby Bindii on Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:44 pm

MattyO wrote:Really creative work. Ive tried a few water drop shots, but none have ever turned out that well. How many times did you have to try for those?


I think from memory I took 25 frames....and about 15 of them were usable...but hoestly how many water drop shots does a girl need...lol

It was fun though :)
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Postby Manta on Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:54 pm

I love them Bindii! Excellent images. I'd be keen to hear how you did it and with what lighting setup. PM on its way...
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Postby ABG on Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:36 pm

I'd like to know what set-up you used for these too Bindii. I suspect there may be quite a few others as well. Maybe you might consider posting here rather than sending multiple PM's? Your choice of course :)
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Postby PiroStitch on Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:08 pm

i like the last one as it shows a trail, rather than just a floating droplet :)
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Postby wendellt on Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:15 pm

this is amazing i love the colour
great work
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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:28 pm

Nicely done. Great colour. :up:
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Postby Bindii on Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:07 am

ABG wrote:I'd like to know what set-up you used for these too Bindii. I suspect there may be quite a few others as well. Maybe you might consider posting here rather than sending multiple PM's? Your choice of course :)


Good point ABG...I've recieved a lot of Pm's on how I did these shots...so here it is...

It was too easy...I put some cardboard behind it...hence the green background...filled a glass to overfilling and placed the glass in a red dish...cause I didnt have any red cardboard and I wanted a red reflection in the water....focused on the top of the glass...manually as auto just wasn't cutting it...chose the fastest shutter speed I could...and set the flash to strobe....I had to have the flash on the camera as I dont have a off shoe mount...I used an eye dropper to drop water into the glass and just fired away with a remote shutter cable...

I took about 25 shots in three bursts and this is what I got... :D
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Postby drifter on Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:42 pm

Nice shots .The last one works best . Thanks for the setup info too bindi . :cheers:
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Postby Manta on Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:46 pm

Bindii wrote:
ABG wrote:I'd like to know what set-up you used for these too Bindii. I suspect there may be quite a few others as well. Maybe you might consider posting here rather than sending multiple PM's? Your choice of course :)


Good point ABG...I've recieved a lot of Pm's on how I did these shots...so here it is...

It was too easy...I put some cardboard behind it...hence the green background...filled a glass to overfilling and placed the glass in a red dish...cause I didnt have any red cardboard and I wanted a red reflection in the water....focused on the top of the glass...manually as auto just wasn't cutting it...chose the fastest shutter speed I could...and set the flash to strobe....I had to have the flash on the camera as I dont have a off shoe mount...I used an eye dropper to drop water into the glass and just fired away with a remote shutter cable...

I took about 25 shots in three bursts and this is what I got... :D


Sounds easy enough....but I've tried to do the same thing with a ping pong ball bouncing down a corridor and there were a few very ordinary images came out of it! You've done really well with these ones Bindii so I guess the rest of us just have to keep persevering. Do you remember the strobe settings you used? We Nikon types may have to adjust a bit for our SB800s. :)
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Postby marcotrov on Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:54 pm

Terrific series Bindii. Colour, Contrast and Creativity :)
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Postby CraigVTR on Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:00 pm

Nice shots Bindii. I hope you didn't waste that water, with all those water police hanging around Brisbane. :lol:
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