Ok I had to try this- water drop macros

Lord Vetinari

Played at doing water drop macros the other day- not that succesfull, here's a few of the shots that actually had something interesting going on.
Brian V.









Lastly the Loch Ness monster put in an appearance

DavidTO

Very cool!

I hope I don't offend anyone by saying that the second looks like Mary holding the baby Jesus.

Lord Vetinari

DavidTO wrote:

Very cool!

I hope I don't offend anyone by saying that the second looks like Mary holding the baby Jesus.

Thanks David,
my you have a sharp eye- didn't notice that
Brian V.

TristanP

OMG, put it up on ebay!





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I mean, very cool shots. Something I've been meaning to try. What's that adding all the color in the background?

MotoKat

TristanP wrote:

What's that adding all the color in the background?

A bag of doritos. :giggle

Great photos!

Oakley

MotoKat wrote:

A bag of doritos. :giggle

Great photos!

That's hilarious! You can actually see the bag through one of the drops in the air...

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments all
Well my son had the doritos on the table I was using
Brian V.
This was the setup.

gluwater

How can you say these weren't very succesful? I think they are great. #4 is my favorite, it's very sharp.

Lord Vetinari

gluwater wrote:

How can you say these weren't very succesful? I think they are great. #4 is my favorite, it's very sharp.

Thanks Nick,
Because of my random method of dropping the drops (by hand) and firing the shutter release, it took about 60 shots to get those . The one thing I didn't understand was when I tried high speed syncro flash at up to 1/1000th sec the shots were more blurred, whilst these were all at 1/200th.
Brian V.

DirtyRat

Colorful drops
That bag of Doritos did the trick! Thanks for the snap of the set-up. It's nice sometimes to see how a photo like this was shot. I'd print them up and frame in a sequence. Cool conversation piece!

Mike A

This is on my list of things to try. These shots are really interesting! Thanks for sharing

Lord Vetinari

Mike A wrote:

This is on my list of things to try. These shots are really interesting! Thanks for sharing

Thanks Mike.
Think it's obligatory for all macroholics to try :

Brian V.

Lee Massey

Were they under exposed? Might have to do with the camera's flash x-sync speed. Of course, that is just a guess...

Thanks,

Lee

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Nick,
Because of my random method of dropping the drops (by hand) and firing the shutter release, it took about 60 shots to get those . The one thing I didn't understand was when I tried high speed syncro flash at up to 1/1000th sec the shots were more blurred, whilst these were all at 1/200th.
Brian V.

Awais Yaqub

weldone great water drop shots
Btw what is the price of doritos ? here they cost 1/2 $

DanielB

nice job

Lord Vetinari

Lee Massey wrote:

Were they under exposed? Might have to do with the camera's flash x-sync speed. Of course, that is just a guess...

Thanks,

Lee

No they were not underexposed, I suspect what was going on was that speed was still not fast enough to catch the high speed action, whilst the much slower1/200th acted like an average so smoothing out any high speed events.
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

Awais Yaqub wrote:

weldone great water drop shots
Btw what is the price of doritos ? here they cost 1/2 $

Thanks Awais,
Only get the the doritos when they are on a BOGOF offer- woks about 7.5p a pack then. :
Brian V.

Thusie

WONDERFUL! #4clap

Red Bull

Wow! Those are some fantastic shots. The bag of Doritos in the background really give good color to the whole photo. I've got to try this sometime.

pathfinder

I love the image of the Dorito bag upside down in the water droplet lens Great colors!

So - Brian - how many drops of water ended up on the front of your lens??

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments Thusie, Steven and pathfinder.
With shot#4 I had to work out the focal length of the drop and move the bag appropriately (just pure luck really).
Didn't get the lens wet but the kitchen towel diffuser on my flash did (very appropriate).
Brian V.

GraphyFotoz

Dunno Brian
My favorite of all your work hasta be this one!

Was this Photoshop'd or straight from the camera?
It's a true work of art!!

Lord Vetinari

GraphyFotoz wrote:

My favorite of all your work hasta be this one!

Was this Photoshop'd or straight from the camera?
It's a true work of art!!

Where did you dig that up from ? :

Think the only thing I did to that shot was a tiny bit of dodge in the drop to lighten it a bit, it's not even focus stacked

Brian V.

GraphyFotoz

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Where did you dig that up from ? :

(Clearing the drool from my keyboard) Uhhhh I dunno?

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Think the only thing I did to that shot was a tiny bit of dodge in the drop to lighten it a bit, it's not even focus stacked

Brian V.

That's it??? Whoah....you ARE the Master Macrophor!!!
I see I can learn a lot from you!

JEM

woah!!!! very cool and classy!

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Played at doing water drop macros the other day- not that succesfull, here's a few of the shots that actually had something interesting going on.
Brian V.









Lastly the Loch Ness monster put in an appearance

I am rapt by macro photograpy and particularly by water droplets and drops. But I've never seen anything quite like yours!!
What did you use?
How did you do it?
Tell me more.....please!?!?!?!

Jem

JEM

just a comment on your saying Brian

GraphyFotoz wrote:

My favorite of all your work hasta be this one!

Was this Photoshop'd or straight from the camera?
It's a true work of art!!

I dunno Brian....I think I frequently get better shots than I am capable of myself, so I think it must be the camera. Mind you I'm a strict amateur just getting back to photography, with this my first foray into the digital medium. So I'm still cheating heaps until I've finished reading the instructions!!!!?!

Jan

p.s.
Can u or anyone tell me how to post a photo for advice....oh and I'm experimenting with some water droplet pics for illustrations in a book of poetry at the moment and want to create a refelction in the droplet...Yours is awesome!!! How did you do it? Is it Photoshop?!?

Thanks heaps!

Jan

Lord Vetinari

JEM wrote:

I am rapt by macro photograpy and particularly by water droplets and drops. But I've never seen anything quite like yours!!
What did you use?
How did you do it?
Tell me more.....please!?!?!?!

Jem

You can see a pic of the setup I was using here.
http://www.digitalgrin.com/showpost.php?p=231937&postcount=7

Just prefocused the camera on the surface using a pencil, then release a stream of drops from a straw or similar and fire the remote trigger (was not even attempting to look through the viewfinder). About 1 in 10 shots had something interesting
Was using F8, 1/200th camera in manual, flash on ettl off camera pointing up through the water. The plastic water box was sitting on coloured cellophane sweet wrappers.
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

JEM wrote:

I dunno Brian....I think I frequently get better shots than I am capable of myself, so I think it must be the camera. Mind you I'm a strict amateur just getting back to photography, with this my first foray into the digital medium. So I'm still cheating heaps until I've finished reading the instructions!!!!?!

Jan

p.s.
Can u or anyone tell me how to post a photo for advice....oh and I'm experimenting with some water droplet pics for illustrations in a book of poetry at the moment and want to create a refelction in the droplet...Yours is awesome!!! How did you do it? Is it Photoshop?!?

Thanks heaps!

Jan

There's some help on posting pics here.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=8401

I actually have the pics hosted on another site, copy the URL and then post here using

No the image in the droplet is genuine- they act as tiny lenses and if you get the focus right you can get an upside down wide angle image of whatever is behind the droplet refracted through the droplet. It's exactlly the same as one of the drop shots above where you can see an image of the bag of Doritos that was behind the drop.
Brian V.