Drops

[Anooop]

Love to take these splashes...taken this shot by filling blue bowl in the kithchen sink and slowly allow water to drop...is it a correct exposure? cropped this pic in microsoft office for uploading...all advices and comments are accepted

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Camera: Nikon D90
F-stop: f/1.8
Exposure time: 1/200 sec
ISO: ISO-320
Flash mode: Flash
Exposure Program: Manual
Fical Length: 35mm

[chicagojohn]

Originally Posted by Anooop

Love to take these splashes...taken this shot by filling blue bowl in the kithchen sink and slowly allow water to drop...is it a correct exposure? cropped this pic in microsoft office for uploading...all advices and comments are accepted

info

Camera: Nikon D90
F-stop: f/1.8
Exposure time: 1/200 sec
ISO: ISO-320
Flash mode: Flash
Exposure Program: Manual
Fical Length: 35mm

I really like this and will have to give it a try myself. Obviously with a strobe, exposure doesn't matter much, so this is probably, in effect, around 1/1000 second of exposure. The more important parameter would be aperture and at f/1.8 (you must have a pretty good lens) you got a fairly narrow depth of field.

That depth of field enables you to have very sharp focus on the drop that leaps up from the water into the air (Newton's Third Law and sort of frames it against the surrounding ripples which are more out of focus.

So I'm thinking about what it might look like if it were totally in focus. That, I guess, would be a decision of the photographer as to what they wanted the image to be about; i.e., the single drop that temporarily escapes from the event and becomes airborne, or rather the total ramifications, including the ripples.

I definitely plan to play around with this concept, and that line of thinking will have to be included.

Anyway, thanks so much for sharing this!