How i took the water Drops.....:) Maneef

[manunasi]

Hi Friends...

This is the way how i took some waterdrops and u did find them interesting....
it was posted here..
http://digital-photography-school.co...ter-drops.html

many of u asked me to submit the how i took it...


I was very very lazy... thats y i am posting it this late....

Let me tell u about my setup...
All u need is

1. Camera..
2. a zoom lens if possible ( to keep the cam away from water), if its ur kit lens then also its ok...
3. A tray or a bowl with a little wide open mouth...
4. A background... (an a4 size print would do... color of ur choice.. or even texture.. doesnt make the difference)
5. A tripod...
6. A bottle or a small cover to drip the water into the tray/bowl...
7. And the most important thing... A pencil or pen...


Instead of me writing down... let me link u to a video i found....

YouTube - How to photograph a splash of water - Week 52

Most importantly.. try all the settings ur heart say... feel free to experiment..
vary the angles.. thee distance.. everyhting...
then mostly take a lots n lots of them...
change the DOF etc etc...

hope u find thee best drop ever captured...

hope u like it..

any doubts let me know....

or mail me at manunasi@gmail.com

love maneef

[radityopradipto]

Well done bro!
I'm gonna try this one tomorrow I guess
Thx for the tips

[Murtasma]

I've always wanted to try this, I was looking around my apartment yesterday night for junk to take pictures of during the winter. I think I'll give this a shot tonight.

[Tonett]

Hi, I have the same camera, am new to all of this and is only use to the regular point and shoot camera so any hints that you can give in getting started would be appreciated

[manunasi]

Originally Posted by Tonett

Hi, I have the same camera, am new to all of this and is only use to the regular point and shoot camera so any hints that you can give in getting started would be appreciated

sure/....
ya sure i can help you to do the drop photography...
how can i help u .. tell me...
can also mail me at manunasi@gmail.com

[Murtasma]

Here is one I took last night using a similar technique. I don't have a way to get my flash off the camera body yet so I was very limited in the way I could light the glass against the black background. I have some more ideas how to improve this but I'll be getting some remote triggers here shortly so I will probably wait to reattempt this.

Boy do you blow through a lot of memory cards when doing this. I also should have shot in JPG instead so I could have taken more images faster. I had to keep my camera body at a vertical orientation and bounce the strobe off a wall to the right. I didn't have anything I could use to hold some white reflectors to help bring more light into the scene so I'll have to devise something for this.

This winter I plan on doing a lot of still life shooting indoors so having something versatile will be very helpful. I basically had to rip my apartment apart to get something setup that would semi work, there must be a better way.

Also having a good macro lens would be really helpful for these images. This is as close as I can get right now.

[manunasi]

Originally Posted by Murtasma

Here is one I took last night using a similar technique. I don't have a way to get my flash off the camera body yet so I was very limited in the way I could light the glass against the black background. I have some more ideas how to improve this but I'll be getting some remote triggers here shortly so I will probably wait to reattempt this.

Boy do you blow through a lot of memory cards when doing this. I also should have shot in JPG instead so I could have taken more images faster. I had to keep my camera body at a vertical orientation and bounce the strobe off a wall to the right. I didn't have anything I could use to hold some white reflectors to help bring more light into the scene so I'll have to devise something for this.

This winter I plan on doing a lot of still life shooting indoors so having something versatile will be very helpful. I basically had to rip my apartment apart to get something setup that would semi work, there must be a better way.

Also having a good macro lens would be really helpful for these images. This is as close as I can get right now.

send me the EXIF of the shots...plz...

[Murtasma]

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180)
Aperture: f/6.7
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Flash was a 430EX II at 1/8th power

[milosh]

Great shots manunasi, and thanks for the video also! It's great. When I see images like this my first thought is how a complicated setup that must have been, but watching videos like yours I see how simple it can be.

Murtasma, that's a great shot, I like the colours and the lighting. Getting a macro lens would of course be great, but this is also awesome. Maybe dropping water from something other than a punctured bag would be better, you would get more predictable drops.

[Murtasma]

I actually have a dripper I didn't use a plastic bag. It's a bottle with a hose coming out the bottom, it has a nozzle that you can adjust the amount of flow you want from a few drops a minute to a steady stream of drops. It works much better then a plastic bag IMO. You can easily pour water back into the bottle with out touching anything and have the drops continue to fall in the same exact spot.

Here is another shot with the nozzle opened up a lot, you can see the difference.