OK OK OK I have tried on numberous occasions to get this shot. Arhghhhhhh Would you please tell me exactly how you did this. In a PM if necessary. Thanks
Jane
ironabike wrote:
OK OK OK I have tried on numberous occasions to get this shot. Arhghhhhhh Would you please tell me exactly how you did this. In a PM if necessary. Thanks
Jane
Please do, but not in a PM (We can all learn from this one!!) Sweet shot
Couple of weeks ago, I also tried to capture a moment like this. I shot a series of more than hundred pictures with three different setups. Then I started deleting the unsuccessful. And guess what? Not a single one was left
Evren wrote:
....shot a series of more than hundred pictures with three different setups. Then I started deleting the unsuccessful. And guess what? Not a single one was left
Evren
Been there ... done that also!!! Got a big headache, and no good shots!
transparent tray for the water actually not deep enough as you could see air bubbles building on the bottom which I had to remove in PP. A sheet of black paper under the tray. Softbox with a speedlight 550 flash to the left tillted a bit downward. Flash at 1/2 power to get a shorter flash duration. Reflector at the right side of the water. Small home made strip light in front of the water aimed towards the backdrop. The rest as black as possible. I did not have any color filters so the color was added afterwards. The original was almost completly black and white. I used a straw to make the drops aiming them at a prefocused point in the tray.
What I would do different next time:
Use a color filter instead of photoshop
Use a larger and deeper tray
Use a boom of some sort to hold a dropper ( I don't known the englisch word for the thing that let you create controled droplets) steady in one place. I got a lot of out of focus shot because the drop landed to close or to far from camera.
Hope this makes sense as I kinda typed in a hurry.
(We can all learn from this one!!) Sweet shot 
Been there ... done that also!!! Got a big headache, and no good shots! 
