Milk drop shots

wally5656

Milk drop about to hit.



Milk drop hits!



And another one hits the mark!



Comments and critique welcomed!!

Lord Vetinari

Good crowns on some of those- looks like very messy fun, well done.
Brian V.

wally5656

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Good crowns on some of those- looks like very messy fun, well done.
Brian V.

Thanks Brian, I apprecite it!

Andy

rahmonster

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Wow these are very very cool. Looks like alotta fun.

gus

I expect nothing less from you wally....excellent work mate

MesaMan

Awesome, how do you do these? I tried with dreadful results.

Apart from "perfect" timing do you use an (outboard) flash? Or just studio lighting? What shutter speed are they?

Awais Yaqub

brilliant work dear

USAIR

Awesome great work
Any tips on how you captured these ?

Thanks
Fred

AJatWork

Whoa very, very cool Wally! Superb job on these!!! Would love to know your workflow on it.


AJ

Crispin

Once again, I am jealous...:cry

Brilliant shots.

DoctorIt

High viscosity liquids are fun, eh? There's some elasticity in there though, how deceitful of you to just tell folks its milk! I'm curious though, was it paint, or soap?


nice set and colors

Thusie

Neato shots, fantastic Yes how did yo do that?

wally5656

Thusie wrote:

Neato shots, fantastic Yes how did yo do that?

Andy... Thank you!
Rahmonster..........They are really addictive!
Humungus.......... You are too kind, I appreciate it!
MesaMan.............I will explain how I do it!
Awais.................Thank you so much!
AJ.........Hi ya!!! I loved your ice sculpture pics...awesome!!! I will explain below!
Crispin...........Thank you very much!
DoctoIt...........I promise it is 2% milk and food coloring, that is all!
Thusie........... Thank you!

Ok, I have to tell y'all I got my instructions from MarkW, mike717, and Greeneggs over on another forum, these guys are awesome at this.

Here is how I do it, you have to have a way to make the milk drip at a steady pace, I use a sepratory funnel..........
I shoot at f16, 1/250 of a second ettl with the flash. Remote cable for the shutter. I have a fairly flat dish for the milk to hit. I put a bottle cap on the dish, then have the milk drop hit it in the center, that is your focus point, then you move the cap, put a drop of food color there, start the milk dripping, then fire away. Once you get your rhythm, you can get some really cool shots!!!!

DoctorIt

wally5656 wrote:

Here is how I do it, you have to have a way to make the milk drip at a steady pace, I use a sepratory funnel..........

What a great idea! As a typical geek engineer, I never thought of such an easy solution!!

Then again, I have the advantage of having access to nice micro nozzles and a high precision digital syringe pump in my lab. Timing is truly the key. You have to be able to set the drips slow enough that the dynamics relax too, otherwise you will not get nice crowns, but at a regular interval so you can time your burst of shots.

Just food coloring, eh? Maybe milk is more viscous than I thought. Maybe I should use that in my next paper instead of the fancy viscoelastic fluids.

wally5656

DoctorIt wrote:

What a great idea! As a typical geek engineer, I never thought of such an easy solution!!

Then again, I have the advantage of having access to nice micro nozzles and a high precision digital syringe pump in my lab. Timing is truly the key. You have to be able to set the drips slow enough that the dynamics relax too, otherwise you will not get nice crowns, but at a regular interval so you can time your burst of shots.

Just food coloring, eh? Maybe milk is more viscous than I thought. Maybe I should use that in my next paper instead of the fancy viscoelastic fluids.

Yeah, and I keep the milk ice cold.........helps with the density of course....lol. It surprised me, the way some photos look like onyx.........