Drops Of Water.

[ShukriShahizam]

010411_Water Drops-7 by See.Find.Capture, on Flickr

Camera Nikon D5000
Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 200
Lens 18-55mm f/3.5-f/5.6

I was trying out water droplet photography with just using my kit lend and on-camera flash. I'm just a beginner so feel free to give feedback.
Thanks

[Dodge]

Welcome to the forum Shukri !

Great first post, nice timing and I love the lighting on the rippling water in the bowl.

Now, if you can do it with a black background and with a black bowl using a slightly more shallow depth of field, making it more arty and less obviously within a bowl, I think the result may be quite special.

Man, I really do like the silkiness and tone of that ripple effect though. Like I said, if you can capture that without the obvious wall and bowl, it'll be really sweet.

[OK_to_Point]

Amazing shot......

[chicagojohn]

If you're a beginner, what does that make me? What comes before the beginning?

But seriously, I'm a beginning photographer, sort of, but I've been a materials scientist a lot longer, and your image captures, in my view, some of the viscoelastic properties of water that we don't normally notice in our routine existence.

We think of water as H2O, but it is really more like H2O X 8 or so. These water molecules link together to make chains and the chains link up with other chains, so that water becomes a polymer of sorts, temporarily held together with Van der Waals forces. You've heard of "surface tension"?

So what I like about your image is that it shows us an aspect of our every day experience when we are encountering water -- brushing our teeth or taking a shower -- that we may not notice but which nonetheless is true and happening around us.

Thanks for sharing this insight, which, I think, applies in many other areas as well.

As Wittgenstein said in The Tractatus, "That which can be shown, cannot be stated."