Patterned Water Drop Shots

[Pixelfun1]

Olympic Games Inspired.....

[Shontae]

that is an awesome picture. absolutely beautiful

[vaqko]

Awesome pictures! Thanks for sharing with us, this tutorial is awesome.
I'm definately trying this out as soon as the bowl I painted dries.

[britblogger]

superb shot - and I loved the set you linked to, especially this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_na...7603702804175/

fantastic work.

[xLoveHateKillx]

Ohmygosh thank you soo much!! You helped me tonnes, I've always wanted to do this. =)
The one that came out best is on my flickr, here: www.flickr.com/purplepetals. =)
Thank you thank youuu!!

[sarahgirl777]

Thank you for sharing how you did that, I'm new to this website and just came across it so I thought I'd try, This is my favorite one, but here is the link to the other ones I did too.

[sharaff]

-- from sharaff - (?)

Shot from Nikon D300. Lens: 105mm f/2.8G IF ED AF-S VR Micro Nikkor. Aperture: f/3.5. ISO speed 400.
Strobist Info:
SB-600 fired from camera left. Power 1/128. Triggered using on-board flash.

[eternalhope]

Yes....patience is definitely a MUST!! I was quite shocked to find that I had taken over 200 shots of this subject matter in the space of 3 hours!!! Crazy....it can really become quite an addictive and obsessive activity!!

Thanks everyone for sharing their shots.....I am amazed at the quality and clarity of the shots.

[antishay]

I have a Canon PowerShot SD1000, which is sort of difficult to work with, for these kinds of shots especially. I have no say in what the f-stop will be and the focus has to be done before each shot (with the button half-depressed while I move my arm over to drip water). The only things I CAN do are control the ISO number and the shutter speed (hack in memory card).

I have only one flash (in my point & shoot) and to get the crisp lines and reflection I wanted I had to use it. I backed the camera up and zoomed in as far as I could (so that the flash wasn't too harsh). I lowered my "exposure" (remember, no control over f-stops!) down to -2/3. Then I set my shutter speed to 1/6400 (the flash really is harsh!) to be able to get a proper shot. ISO was... 100? Either that or 80. My EXIF data is nowhere to be found in iPhoto because I was shooting with the hack for shutter speed.

ANYWAY - that was the process I went through to get my adorable (and great but not DSLR) point and shoot camera to do a shot like this. There was ambient light but not too much of it, and I put a black crocheted bag as the background for the bowl, in case there was any reflection at least it would be cool.



ISO: 100 or 80
Shutter: 1/6400
Aperture: f4.0 (automatically decided by camera - somewhat dictated by setting the "exposure" to -2/3)
Lens: Whatever's on the p&s - zoomed in 3x
Flash: speedlight in camera, no filter
Tripod: yes
Post-Production: slight desaturation, slight hue adjustment (more blue), slightly upped contrast.

[Bluemist]

wow these are great....I will have to try it in the daylight...