Continuous Light Waterdrops

[PixelRabbit]

Ok last ones! (for now


These are done with continuous light, you get a glimpse at my "light sources" in the shot of my sidekick Bear lol He was a big help I also stole the bottom of my lava lamp to light it from the bottom :hippie:

Would love to hear your thoughts, thanks for taking a look

1. Bear watching the drops with me lol






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3. I like the slight motion in this one.







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5. And now for something a little different.
The Drought

 

[Big Mike]

Pretty cool. I've always wanted to play around with this, but never had the time/space/motivation.

There is still a bit of motion blur, which doesn't totally kill the shots, but take something away. To me, the appeal of 'drop shots' is the motion freezing aspect.

 

[PixelRabbit]

Hey Mike, this was fun you should try it! I will definitely be trying again with continuous light. This was about as frozen as I could get with the light that I had (bunch of led flashlights and the lava lamp bottom under the glass) it was a real balancing act between DOF and shutter speed. Here are the settings for this time around Settings: 1/1250 ƒ/16 ISO 3200 I'm keeping my eye open for stronger continuous light to try again with to see how much faster I can get the shutter, now it is a challenge

 

[HughGuessWho]

Hey Mike, this was fun you should try it! I will definitely be trying again with continuous light. This was about as frozen as I could get with the light that I had (bunch of led flashlights and the lava lamp bottom under the glass) it was a real balancing act between DOF and shutter speed. Here are the settings for this time around Settings: 1/1250 ƒ/16 ISO 3200 I'm keeping my eye open for stronger continuous light to try again with to see how much faster I can get the shutter, now it is a challenge

I find that f/8 works pretty well for water drops. Then you get get your shutter speed up a bit. Just my .02

 

[PixelRabbit]

Thanks Hugh, I will try F8 when I try again with stronger light

 

[binga63]

i took my drops outside into the sunlight . cannot get a better continous light than that

 

[PixelRabbit]

Ah see I usually end up doing things like water drops and smoke at night when I'm bored to play with the light, perhaps I will try during the day also, thanks for the suggestion.