High speed droplet photography

Hello.


I am hoping to do some water droplet photography, and I know that having a strobe is essential what i want to know is that would my YN560 be enough or do i have to buy one of the canon flash guns.

I have a 550D with some L glass and a sturdy tripod, water tray, light stand,remote shutter release...

since the yn560 doe not sync with the 55od at anything above 1/250th what other way can i use to freeze the droplet's motion.


thanks in advance

As long as the strobe is the primary light source (ie the ambient exposure is very dark), then the shutter speed will not matter. The flash duration will be what freezes the action, and that will be 1/4000 second range. Try it and you'll see. The lower power setting you use on the flash, the shorter the flash duration will be (the more the action will be frozen).

Ah. that's good I will try and do some tests tomorrow and see if i get something worth posting here.

This thread may help you:
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=460544

Use the flash unit in close to where the drops will be falling & use reduced power settings. The room lighting will need to be darker than normal, but you don't need a totally darkened room.