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IanWeatherburn
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 04:53
Experiments with Water - No. 1 of 3

At the moment I'm in experimentation mode (when I'm not taking portraits), and this pictures is the results of my attempt at capturing water splashes. We've all done it I know, but I had to have my hand at it at some point for the first time, and here you see the results.

Some interesting information about this photo shoot:
1. All photo's were taken outdoors in ordinary sunlight at about 10:00 AM.
2. In total, 844 photo's were taken using the motor-drive on the Canon EOS 20D, in Macro mode on a tripod.
3. Of the 844, only 29 were kept as possible candidates (the last batch of photos were by far and away the best, so clearly I learnt something here as I went along).
4. Levels, Contrast and some minor (I promise) colour adjustment has been done in Photoshop, along with the regular cropping, image resizing and borders
5. Other EXIF info you can see for yourself from the photo information

That's about it, hope you enjoy them. Let me have your critique.
If you want to see the other two (or a larger clearer version of this), go to my site at http://mrstickman.deviantart.com

sid
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 06:25
Looks nice. What lens did you use ?

IanWeatherburn
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 07:06
Sigma 70-300 Macro

felix21685
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 13:30
hey ive got that lens :)

what size water drop did you drop and how?

when i tried doing this i only got little splashes compared to yours.

PhotosGuy
30th of April 2005 (Sat), 21:02
Nice catch!

IanWeatherburn
1st of May 2005 (Sun), 07:28
Ummm, I never measured the drop size :D but the drops were coming from one of those sports drinking bottles? Hope that helps - good luck!