Water Drop source height

[dicklaxt]

When doing waterdrop photography is there a recommended height that the drop should be released from?What does releasing from different heights do to the composition?How fast should the drops repeat?

Curious George is on the prowl:lol:

dick

[Warl0rd]

the water splash will be bigger or smaller depending on the drop size and height.

the speed depends on what you want to photograph them, you can try fast repeating to catch drop collision or slow to catch the waves effect on the water...

IF you search this section you can find info about how to shoot water drops.

[canonloader]

Dick, my attempts the other day were dropped from a fixed height of about 2 feet. I didn't measure it exactly. My C-Clamp controller worked very well, so I did try some different frequencies, both slow and fast.

I think 2 feet is too high. There also might be some kind of parameter you can control by varying the size of the dropper end. I used some aquarium air hose, and without measuring it, I think the inside diameter is about 3/16". The drops were fairly large, bigger than rain drops. the hardest part was to try and time the shutter release. I took about 130 shots total, and never did manage to get good timing on just when to use the remote trigger. I'm not going to get into it enough though, to warrant a laser trigger, so I'll have to live with it.. :)

[LowSpark420]

I am about to give this a whirl with nothing but a 50mm 1.8II, a set of extension tubes, an off camera 430EXII and my Canon XSi...

For a newbie, this could get interesting.

[MrContact]

while on vacation over the last holiday I played around with this subject.
Basically it involved taping a sandwich bag of water to a tall stool, placing that on the table, a paint tray filled partially with water underneath, poking a hole in the bag, and using a flashlight for extra lighting.

They didn't turn out much at all, but it was a good experiment.