Splash!

PixelRabbit · Nov 13, 2012

Splash!

Pretty happy with this one, I have been practicing the processing, I have a bad habit of making them lose the transparency of the water but I like the balance in this one between contrast and clear.
I'm still set up and going to play more so would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for taking a look

Frequency · Nov 13, 2012

Awesome, Awesome

MLeeK · Nov 13, 2012

I love what looks like light painting on the right side!

PixelRabbit · Nov 13, 2012

Thanks Nandakumar and MLee

Agree! Those streaks are way cool

nmoody · Nov 13, 2012

Nice job, love the shoots out to the right.

PixelRabbit · Nov 13, 2012

Thanks Nmoody

WesternGuy · Nov 13, 2012

Very neat image - how did you manage to get the water to shoot out sideways - just curious.

WesternGuy

Flyhigh · Nov 13, 2012

A keeper for sure! Very nicely done.

TATTRAT · Nov 13, 2012

Very cool, something I have played around with as well. What's your set up?

PlanetStarbucks · Nov 13, 2012

Very cool...way to take the water droplet shot and do something different with it. This one goes up to 11! Release one that I can use as my desktop background, lol.

Derrel · Nov 13, 2012

The lighting set-up, and the way it defines the drop's impact, is much,much more visually rewarding than in the earlier water drop pics you posted today. Those, the ones where Bear the cat was watching, were not very satisfying...just could not "see anything clearly", and thus they were visually, well...not compelling, let's say. THIS shot, OTOH, has some interesting things going on. The crown, and the streaking, as well as the ripples--all that gives the viewer plenty to see and think about. As in so many types of shots, it's often very much "about the lighting"--and this has good lighting. The earlier set did not.

PixelRabbit · Nov 14, 2012

WesternGuy said:
Very neat image - how did you manage to get the water to shoot out sideways - just curious.

WesternGuy

Hey Western, thanks

I do believe that this happened when two drops fell at almost the same time, a big one and a small one... but I could be wrong lol

Flyhigh said:
A keeper for sure! Very nicely done.

Thanks Flyhigh

TATTRAT said:
Very cool, something I have played around with as well. What's your set up?

Thanks Tattrat

Here is a pic I took of Bear with a bit of my setup, yes it is flashlights

and under the glass I'm dropping on was the bottom of my lava lamp. I'm using onboard flash in this one so settings are : Settings: 1/250 /13 ISO 400 200 mm

PlanetStarbucks said:
Very cool...way to take the water droplet shot and do something different with it. This one goes up to 11! Release one that I can use as my desktop background, lol.

Thanks PlanetStarbucks

You are more than welcome to use it as your desktop

Derrel said:
The lighting set-up, and the way it defines the drop's impact, is much,much more visually rewarding than in the earlier water drop pics you posted today. Those, the ones where Bear the cat was watching, were not very satisfying...just could not "see anything clearly", and thus they were visually, well...not compelling, let's say. THIS shot, OTOH, has some interesting things going on. The crown, and the streaking, as well as the ripples--all that gives the viewer plenty to see and think about. As in so many types of shots, it's often very much "about the lighting"--and this has good lighting. The earlier set did not.

Thanks Derrel. I wondered about those other shots before I posted them, I had been staring at either shots of waterdrops or waterdrops all day and it was becoming all a blur lol. I should have waited a day and looked again this morning before I posted. There is something I do like in the others, especially the last one I titled Drought (I think it should have been separated from the group all together but alas I jumped the gun posting, not unusual lol

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