I can't recall where I put up my last abstract photos so I thought I'd start a new thread.
As you all know I've been enjoying a freezing Bavarian winter on my own this winter and starting to climb the walls a bit. Still three weeks to go before I get back to Thailand and normality...
Anyway, I was wondering around thinking what to do when I happened upon some youtube videos on splash photography. Some of them looked a little sophisticated and others were using expensive mechanisms to capture the 'splash'. All far too clever for me, until I watched some guy taking pictures of water splashing into a frying pan. Simple stuff and it looked fun, so I thought I'd give it a try...after several glasses of red wine.
The equipment:
A clothes horse, serving two purposes, firstly it enabled e to peg the back drop and secondly to hang the zip bag with water.
A zip bag with water pegged to the clotheshorse and with a darning needle sized hole in the corner. (knew that darning needle would come in handy some day)
A frying pan with some water in it. I filled it about half
I used my Nikon d7200 with a 110mm macro and a flash but I think any lend between 100mm and 300mm will do.
So I pegged the bag on the clotheshorse and let the water drip into the frying pan. I pegged a background of a bath towel behind and stuck the pan on the floor to catch the drips. I then placed a flash pointing towards the background at 1/32 and about 1" away. Camera was on manual at 1/250 and F14 although I played around a bit to get the setup to a decent exposure.
To start with the water dripped quite quickly, but as the water level in the zip bag drops the rate drips drop to a reasonable level. FOr me, it started at every half second and ended up around 7 seconds between drips.
I hand held the camera and put it on a tripod with a shutter release cable. This is just playing around at this stage so no need to get too professional over it. I was having some red wine fuelled fun!
Apologies, should have taken a setup photo, will do that next time.
Now for some results:
splash_5411.jpg
splash_5428.jpg
It's all a lot of trial and error about when to snap...I was on burst mode and the 1/32 flash meant it kept up most of the time.