Getting some ice in the juice

[ivian.paun]

Hi,

I've saw some pictures that people take on the water so I've tried a little trick with some juice and some ice.
The 2 questions that I have:
1. Which one looks better, the cropped one or the original one.
2. How could I get a better focus of the picture? What I've did was AF on the glass and then turned on the MF and adjust it a little, in my viewfinder looked ok, but it seams that is still not so good focused.

Info about the original photo:

Camera: EOS 50D
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 2000
Exposure: 1/320
Focal length: 55mm



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thank you
Ivian

[Japaslavian]

The noise resulting from your extremely high ISO is give the image an artifact kind of look, which is probably attributing the the unfocused look your talking about. Judging by your other setting, your set was probably not lit sufficiently for something like this.
Increase the amount of light in the room and you should get some better results.
Also, the drape in the background is not doing the shot any justice. Try creating an infinity cove with it, or better yet, look into purchasing a large sheet of white Plexiglas and use that as a backdrop. It will give you a nice reflection, and add more light into the glass.

[ivian.paun]

The light I know is bad, for now I didn't have what else to do, as the room where I've shoot had a very poor light, that's why I had to increase so much the ISO so I could have the shutter speed higher.

I should try the cove as you say, that drape was there just to mask the other things in the room which would distract the eye even blurry.

Thanks for the reply, I will keep trying the trick till it would get better

regards
Ivian

[Hartzler]

The best way to freeze this kind of shot is using off-camera flash. There are some tricks to how to set the flash so it doesn't blow out the shot and you probably want to bounce it off something. Nice splash, keep trying different things. These shots take a lot of experimentation, but can be fun. There are some guides here and on the 'net that might help.