08 Technical assignment #2 Frozen water

monkeykoder · Jan 21, 2008

Theme: Water frozen in time.

Due Date: Thursday January 31st 2008

Please post current photos. Anyone can participate.

The goal of this assignment is simple fast shutter speed to freeze the motion of water to give it that frozen look.

ScottS · Jan 21, 2008

but.... all the water around here is actually frozen...

Well, ill actually be able to post in this one.

ChrisFromTwistedInc · Jan 21, 2008

uggh, it hardly gets cold enough here for water to freeze, lol

but we may get lucky

Big Bully · Jan 21, 2008

So are we doing suspended water? Or frozen water, or both?
Because if we are doing frozen water then heck I can do that right outside my front door.. lol

monkeykoder · Jan 21, 2008

Flowing water frozen in place by fast shutter or flash.

Big Bully · Jan 21, 2008

monkeykoder said:
Flowing water frozen in place by fast shutter or flash.

oooh I wonder if my camera will do that...

monkeykoder · Jan 21, 2008

It works if you use flash in a dark room.

Big Bully · Jan 21, 2008

hmm I think I just might try that...

hawkeye · Jan 22, 2008

Nothing really creative about it... just a water drop.

I do see a vodka bottle though, upside down and on the other end of the table

Big Bully · Jan 22, 2008

That really is cool!

monkeykoder · Jan 22, 2008

Hawkeye I love your submission.

hawkeye · Jan 22, 2008

Thanks. I just set up the tripod at the sink and took countless pictures till I finally got a decent drop.

1/500 sec
200 mm
ISO 200
Flash: Did Fire

monkeykoder · Jan 22, 2008

I pulled the same thing but put my camera on auto so I could see if it was possible with a point+shoot

Monz · Jan 23, 2008

What I found out on this Assignment.
My Camera (D40X) will only go to 200 in flash mode.
it is better to use a lighter background

Thanks for the site
Monz

sabbath999 · Jan 23, 2008

Monz said:
What I found out on this Assignment.
My Camera (D40X) will only go to 200 in flash mode.
it is better to use a lighter background

The feature I think I like the best about the D40 (not X) is that excellent 1/500th flash sync. I wish they had put the FP mode on the D40X since they lowered the flash sync, giving you that to make up for the relatively slow sync speed.