Water Photography

RONDAL · Oct 24, 2009

Hurt my back last night so i can't really go anywhere. Decided it was a good day to try out an experiment i've been wanting to do for a while now.

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This was the best crown i got all day

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The entire set can be seen here. Including setup details.
Flickr: rondal's Photostream

marmots · Oct 24, 2009

man i just love water photography
i have only seen one person get a drop hitting the tower of another drop now that was cool.

something to try maybe?

ecnal · Oct 24, 2009

I like it, especially #1, but I feel like there's some more lighting to be had. Seems a little dark.

If I recall, a light in the water (out of frame, obviously) may light the water pretty neat. Like a sealed white LED setup. I'm sure you could find something that you could, worse case, make waterproof with some silicone for a buck or two.

Just my 0.02$

Rudha · Oct 24, 2009

just proves it doesn't it.....it's not just location, location, location but perspective, perspective, perspective ....awesome photos

RONDAL · Oct 25, 2009

ecnal said:
I like it, especially #1, but I feel like there's some more lighting to be had. Seems a little dark.

If I recall, a light in the water (out of frame, obviously) may light the water pretty neat. Like a sealed white LED setup. I'm sure you could find something that you could, worse case, make waterproof with some silicone for a buck or two.

Just my 0.02$

actually you dont need to put a light in the water, you just need to bounce light into the water but not off the background like i was doing it.

if you bounce light perpendicular to the camera into the water and light the background with a different color you will get the effect you were going for.

what i did was slightly different which was have the background one color with the water, and then highlight the liquid that came out of the pool. thats why you see the red color in some areas of the shots.