Hi everyone
My first try on photographing water drops falling into water
Hope you like it, comments well appreciated!
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//EDIT:
Because some of you asked:
Here's how I did it:
First, I filled my wash basin in my bathroom with water from top to bottom.
Then I mounted my camera on a tripod in a height just a little bit over the water surface.
After that, I put a pencil where the drop would fall to adjust focus manually (it won't focus properly if you use autofocus).
Then I removed the pencil, set the camera to 1/30s and the lowest possible f/stop (it was f/5.6 for me since I was shooting at 112mm), and set the flash settings to TTL.
I let the tap fall some droplets and shot about 100 pictures. I chose the best, opened it in Camera Raw and then in Photoshop, in which I added the color (it was transparent grey/white out of the camera), played around with saturation and contrast, adjusted sharpness (just a little) and finally cropped it. The out-of-camera shot wasn't really impressive, so post-processing plays an important part in shooting water drops, especially for the color!
Hint: It can be difficult first to find the correct timing to freeze the droplets in the air, so do a lot of shots and sort out the better ones later - that's why I did 100 shots!
Regards
lurw
PS: If there are any faults in language/grammatics, please forgive me, I'm a 17 years old Swiss guy
