Water drops

[Tall_Paul]

Messed about with some water drops, not too sure myself, what do you think? these are striaght from camera, only cropped & resized.








>> Edited by Tall_Paul on Friday 20th May 19:21

[simpo two]

Like I said, if you're doing this on Day 2, you're dangerous

[V6GTO]

Ditto what Simpo said!

Martin.

[simpo two]

INTERMISSION

We apologise for the loss of picture...

So here's some molten glass to keep you going until he plugs the lead back in

[maverick1]

Hi
I feel a bit stupid asking this, but how do you do that? Isn't it pretty hard to get the camera to take the pic at the exact time of the drop hitting the water?
Thanks

[simpo two]

When I was at school, one of the A-level engineering students devised a mechanism for photographing water droplets. It was a small tower which released two ball bearings simultaneously. One fell into the water to make a splash; the other fell on a lever that fired the shutter. By adjusting the relative heights of the two ball bearings before release, very small differences in timing could be achieved, so it was quite easy to photograph the crown and drop at all stages.

And not a digital pixel anywhere... :sigh: Jumpers for goalposts...

[poah]

check this for a water drop

[Tall_Paul]

maverick1 said:

Hi I feel a bit stupid asking this, but how do you do that? Isn't it pretty hard to get the camera to take the pic at the exact time of the drop hitting the water? Thanks

Luck...and timing, I took alot of shots to get some good ones, the drops tend to fall in a rythm, so you can time when to press the shutter! DigitalSLR helps too...

[Graham.J]

What's the EXIF data, you have a D70 too.....

[te51cle]

You know I've been meaning to try something like that ever since I first bought a camera over 15 years ago. Still haven't got around to doing it ! What sort of container did you use or was it just the kitchen sink ?

[beano500]

te51cle said:

You know I've been meaning to try something like that ever since I first bought a camera over 15 years ago. Still haven't got around to doing it ! What sort of container did you use or was it just the kitchen sink ?

I used to love trying different things. Cost of film and processing has been a real dampener over the years.

My proudest image about 30 years ago was managing to have a dart, appearing in motion, heading towards a dartboard at close range. Dart was suspended from fishing line (which of course you don't see) and a slow shutter/small aperture and I had it within a few frames. Nobody could work out how I'd "caught" a dart on the way to the bullseye!!

Yesterday I filled a 1Gb card with cygnets, just in search of one "right" image!!!

[Tall_Paul]

Graham.J said:

What's the EXIF data, you have a D70 too.....

the droplet just hitting the water was taken @ f4.5 1/60 +1.0EV, 70mm, Standard fill-flash (the first/default D70 flash setting) ISO200, the other two were taken @ f6.7, all other settings the same.

it was just the kitchen sink that was used.

[Tall_Paul]

beano500 said:

Yesterday I filled a 1Gb card with cygnets, just in search of one "right" image!!!

i know what you mean, i think i've taken about 1000+ shots in 3 days!!! the beauty of digital...

[poah]

I took well over 10000 images in 4 months when I had my 300D lol

[white_van_man]

iv taken well over 2500 shots in 3 months just learning how to use the camera

[Graham.J]

Tall_Paul said:

Graham.J said: What's the EXIF data, you have a D70 too..... the droplet just hitting the water was taken @ f4.5 1/60 +1.0EV, 70mm, Standard fill-flash (the first/default D70 flash setting) ISO200, the other two were taken @ f6.7, all other settings the same. it was just the kitchen sink that was used.

Oh excellent, I may give that a go at some point then Thanks!!

[dcw@pr]

poah said:

I took well over 10000 images in 4 months when I had my 300D lol

just done a rough calculation on my pictures hard disc

i can't quite match the burst rate of some of you, but I have about 71,000 different photos, taken at an average rate of about 2000 a month! Not all taken by me I must add.

[v6gto]

I must be a dinosaur from the dark ages of slides. The most pictures I've ever taken in a day was 1gig of RAW images. But those years of slide shooting were good practice because at least 50% of images taken end up saved.
[Yoda]Much to learn you have, young Padwans.[/Yoda]

Martin.

[simpo two]

v6gto said:

I must be a dinosaur from the dark ages of slides. The most pictures I've ever taken in a day was 1gig of RAW images. But those years of slide shooting were good practice because at least 50% of images taken end up saved.

I agree. I've taken about 3,800 in 9 months - way ahead of what it would have been with film (more experimenting and bracketing) but nowhere near these all-digital folk

My simple test: look through viewfinder. Does the picture look good? If yes, press button. If no, move along.

Yep, with digital you can take shots you don't like and delete them...

[mxdi]

Tall paul, Shot 3 is the best, would look excellent if the background was black and the water had a blue tinge to it. Have you played around with it yet?