Macro water drops tutorial

[Olga_pv]

I found very interesting tutorial. I hope it's allowed to post it here as a link (would be better to post whole tutorial of course) and I hope I am not repeating some other thread.

So here is Rich Allen's tutorial, have a look and try to repeat

 

[dalex100]

Where is the link?

 

[Olga_pv]

This is the link http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs19/f/2007/299/2/2/22e34609182b7aa6.jpg But I repeat, author is Rich Allen, not me


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[Olga_pv]

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[Bynx]

Thanks Olga. That is a different way to shoot drops. Easy setup too.

 

[Olga_pv]

Welcome, Bynx. I am glad if it's helpful. Anyway, my first trying of this wasn't good, I will not even post it here, but I want to try again

 

[Drake]

Thanks for sharing, a great way to waste some time during the weekend. Gotta try it.

 

[Olga_pv]

Welcome, Drake!

Still nobody tried? Ok, here my first pics of macro drops, but I don't like it. Second picture was made with the computer screen as a background


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drops by Olga_pv, on Flickr

 

[Cheex]

couldn't get droplets but more of just pools?

Any advice?

 

[dalex100]

Hey Olga_pv, I tried and all I got is a blurred image. I got the same camera as you : DMC-FZ40 from Panasonic. I was wondering what setting are you using with which mode? Maybe it could be helpful.
Thanks

 

[Olga_pv]

Dalex,
maybe your problem was in focus, if you used macro AF, then you should help your camera, because automatically it likes to focus on a background, you can draw black spot on a glass, so camera can easy focus on that spot, or just use manual focus. Another thing is you shouldn't use flash but you can set higher iso, to reduce exposure time, if you don't have tripod

 

[arkipix1001]

great share olga...i'll try that one of this day...thanx for the share

 

[Bynx]

I strongly suggest the use of off camera flash. The idea is you want to capture a very brief moment in time. So bright light, fast shutter speed and mid size to smaller size aperture. Keep ISO as low as you can because if you go high it introduces noise into the picture. Dont even try this without a tripod.

 

[D_Alishouse]

This is really awesome! I'm going to try it myself this weekend. Thanks, Olga, it's always fun to get some new visual ideas and your droplets are very cool.

D Alishouse
Boulder Wedding Photographer

 

[luxmariaj]

Thanks for sharing