Craig Sillitoe Member 32 posts Likes: 1 Joined Apr 2011 More info | Apr 04, 2011 04:08 | #1 I was just sitting in front of the television one evening watching a movie with a glass of lemonade. When I got up to get the remote control I tripped and spilled lemonade on the TV screen. Then I saw it, the squared regimented lines of pixels on the screen were transformed into vibrant moving colours. I was transfixed with the imagery and within half an hour I had the TV lying on it’s back and was spraying water over it. I’d forgotten about the movie. I took a whole series of pictures, I’d never seen this before and just kept experimenting, trying different images on the screen, different enlargement levels etc. It seemed to look best when the droplets would bead up, so I needed something on the screen to make it bead more. I had been taking some surfing photos the week before and I was using Rain-X (a product that I bought at an auto store). It makes the water bead up and slide off the glass (some photographers rub half a potato on their waterproof camera housing’s lens port, but I wasn’t going to rub a potato on my TV screen). So now I had Rain-X all over my TV screen. The TV screen was propped up just slightly at the top, almost flat. I had a tripod leaning over it which was anchored so it wouldn’t fall on the TV. On the tripod was an Olympus OM-2n with a 100mm lens and a set of Macro Bellows. It was quite a sight, I had a spray bottle in one hand, and a cable release in the other, and the room lights were out to prevent stray light from dulling the colours. Using a bellows helped because the whole thing is on a rail, so you focus by rolling the whole set-up in and out. Getting the droplets sharp along with enough sharpness in the pixels meant a very small aperture. About f16 on the lens, it’s actually higher than that in reality because the bellows increases the f-stop. The fix to that was to use the camera’s internal metering which takes the belows extension into account. With digital, just shoot some test frames. Exposure was about 8 seconds at 100 ISO with the lens on f16. This image was shot using an old low definition TV with large pixels. I wonder how it would look now with an HDTV? Hmmm… Photographers Tell, How They Made Their Best Shots | Photogrill
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EchoLocation Member 102 posts Joined Nov 2010 Location: Philly and China More info | Apr 05, 2011 00:51 | #2 very cool, i love the description. make sure to clean the rain x off your screen really well, it can leave a hazy layer on top.... i've been taking pictures of my computer screen zoomed in tight, so i'm enjoying where you're coming from! super cool shots! Canon 5D, Canon 550D, 24-105 F4L, Sigma 50mm 1.4, 550EX
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Apr 05, 2011 04:00 | #3 Thanks very much, I've been a photographer for over 20 years, I'm now really enjoying the chance to write about making photographs. Photographers Tell, How They Made Their Best Shots | Photogrill
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mckvakk Member 76 posts Joined Mar 2011 Location: Oslo, Norway More info | Very cool. I'm a photography student, so please excuse me If my questions seem stupid or basic.
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Apr 05, 2011 16:23 | #5 Yes an old CRT screen, pixels were much larger. I'd be interested to see how it looks on HDTV but I'm not game Photographers Tell, How They Made Their Best Shots | Photogrill
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Sven-EOS Senior Member ![]() 481 posts Likes: 1 Joined Jul 2009 Location: Holland More info | Apr 05, 2011 17:23 | #6 Cool! Great image! "Luck is probability taken personally"
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