Macro Speed Challenge #11 - Objects in Motion

thanks Breklundin for the comment and just wait for some super macro shot to come, I just made myself an adapter, with two old cheap filter with glass removed, to screw on backward my 50mm f/1.8...

and for the marbles, I had put some yellow food colorant in the water and drop in some syrup of strawberry flavored Nesquick
the multiple droplets are just a fluke of the backsplash

Ya'll intimidate the crap out of me!

I couldn't think of anything small, in motion to shoot. And I wasn't ready to attempt water droplets.........

The brake was really puzzling me. Couldn't quite figure out how you got a pic of a brake. I had this image of you hanging out the window of a car.......roflmao

LOL!! I think he might be crazy enough to do it too...

Hey all! Everyone had some nice shots in this one! I feel really lucky to have won!
New challenge is up:
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John_B - want to share some tips/tricks on the lighting on that shot? I have an idea of what you did, but I hope you'd share.

genodm - oddly enough I knew that was a brake disc off a bike. Could it have been from the macro guessing game?? Way cool shot showing the motion there.

brecklundin - No, I'm not a pyromaniac or anything, but looking at candles/matches through a macro lens fascinates me, though fire on a larger scale scares me. I'd played with water drops before and with the recent try on the matches, I thought I'd try to combine the candle and a water drop to see if I could catch it just right to get the refraction of the flame. Let's just say it took a few tries. Maybe one day I'll get a photogate trigger or the like, but right now it's all manual timing (and I'm getting pretty good at it).

Oddly enough, I did relatively little PP on the shot. I'm sure it could use more, but that's about how it came out of the camera. I smiled when I saw it!!

Thanks for the comments everyone! Have fun with the new one, though I bet I won't have fun judging...

monty28428 wrote in post #7208308
LOL!! I think he might be crazy enough to do it too...

HEY!!!!

lavanut wrote in post #7208336
genodm - oddly enough I knew that was a brake disc off a bike. Could it have been from the macro guessing game?? Way cool shot showing the motion there.

Never been on the MGG. Maybe somebody else posted something similar. Initial idea was my speedometer. I took some shots at 120 kph at night blasting down the highway (Monty, it wasn't easy with a 100mm...) but wasn't happy with the way it fit the competition.

genodm wrote in post #7208398
Never been on the MGG. Maybe somebody else posted something similar. Initial idea was my speedometer. I took some shots at 120 kph at night blasting down the highway (Monty, it wasn't easy with a 100mm...) but wasn't happy with the way it fit the competition.

A macro at 120 kph? at night? OMG....
My bad on thinking it might've been you on MGG. It was someone else. But check out the pic (post 8667). Freakily similar to your pic, but yours in motion was cool...

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LOL -- Geno! I knew I was right about you

Thought some might find this interesting... here's a nickel bouncing off the water

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lavanut wrote in post #7208336
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brecklundin - No, I'm not a pyromaniac or anything, but looking at candles/matches through a macro lens fascinates me, though fire on a larger scale scares me. I'd played with water drops before and with the recent try on the matches, I thought I'd try to combine the candle and a water drop to see if I could catch it just right to get the refraction of the flame. Let's just say it took a few tries. Maybe one day I'll get a photogate trigger or the like, but right now it's all manual timing (and I'm getting pretty good at it)....</snip?>

Suuure, that's what they all say "...I can stop anytime I want...I am not a {fill in the blank}..."

HEHEHEHEHE...sorry, as always I just crack myself up...

Very funny you should put it that way. Almost every macro I posted was accidental or more accurately, inadvertent. The Phart'd Eye was simply something I created out of curiosity and found I really liked it...

That is something I am really getting out of these challenges, I get to experiment and who cares...plus we all can go to school on each other. I for one completely MISSED the refraction in the drop. But seeing it now gives me another tool to consider when trying to come up with different ways of looking at potential shots.

speaking of triggers...one day I want to either buy or rent a lightening trigger and find a place with a lot of it...I wonder if a lightening trigger would work for your lighted match shots? Where is McGuyver when we need him!!??

MONTY!!! That is OUTSTANDING and I like it even better than the other one, which I loved!!

Hey, one could ensure a bounce by making very firm jello then just float a thin layer of water to ensure lots of splash but the jello would work like a trampoline, ya think?

LOL - Yea I've got a couple like that... I overlooked them thinking I had pressed the shutter release to quickly and it was just the coin approaching the water.

lavanut wrote in post #7208552
A macro at 120 kph? at night? OMG....
My bad on thinking it might've been you on MGG. It was someone else. But check out the pic (post 8667). Freakily similar to your pic, but yours in motion was cool...

Like I said, it was tough to photograph the speedo with a 100. I only got a couple in focus, here's one at 80 kph.

Also, another one of the disc that shows it a little better.

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brecklundin wrote in post #7209326
speaking of triggers...one day I want to either buy or rent a lightening trigger and find a place with a lot of it...I wonder if a lightening trigger would work for your lighted match shots? Where is McGuyver when we need him!!??

Yeah, I want to try one of those too, but they won't work for matches. They need a "flash" more like lightening. It's been a while since I looked at them, but supposedly other flashes/strobed won't even set the lightening trigger off.

I want to try one of the triggers that will fire the camera/flash when something like a drop passes between a photodiode and receptor. There are various ones out there, but I've never played with one myself. I bet I'd have fewer missed shots with that once it's calibrated.

And if we're sharing other tests, here was one of my early trials for this comp. I was playing with 2nd curtain sync on the flash. Yet another thing to get out and try for an assignment where we can learn from each other (and our own successes/failures). It was a neat concept but needs something else. No PP except for levels/curves adjustments. This was a rolling coin while firing the flash at the end of the exposure (2nd curtain sync), hence the trails.

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^very cool -- I tried that with a marble but kept blowing it out or missing it all together

lavanut wrote in post #7209499

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Sweet! Someday I'll figure out what that second curtain thingie means and how to do it.