Splashes

Helium_Junkie · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:02

Morning all, the missus and I had another shot at capturing splashes, this time with coloured water. We decided we needed a larger splash so we could be further away (hoping for a higher DoF), so opted for dropping a marble into water :-)

Here are some of the results from the first batch - we're very happy with these and have plenty of ideas for improving now that we have a solid base to work from (more light, bigger bowl, etcetc).

1440wide version

Some others here

Thanks for looking! :-)

Mohain · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:14

Love the first one

Sp00n · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:18

That last one has a certain flubber feel about it.

I need to get some shots like this!

MookJong · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:19

Wow love them all, the first one is the best because you don't see the back of the bowl.

How did you light this?

Helium_Junkie · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:32

MookJong said:
How did you light this?

We used a 500w Halogen lamp about 1.5m away (to the right, not elevated - you can see there is shadow cast by the side of the tin because this lamp was too low), with a tin foil reflector on the left pointing some of the light in and downwards.
And a flashgun mounted on the D70

MookJong · 13 Feb 2007 at 14:28

I take it the yellow and green are simply objects lit by the lamp behind the tank? or is that the light passing through the marble?

Helium_Junkie · 13 Feb 2007 at 14:31

We added a little green food colouring to the water, the 'yellow' is where there is more light and the colour is weaker.

MookJong · 13 Feb 2007 at 15:28

Helium_Junkie said:
We added a little green food colouring to the water, the 'yellow' is where there is more light and the colour is weaker.

Finally got you to reveal your secret

I eagerly await part 3 of your experiments!

themask70 · 14 Feb 2007 at 02:16

Looking nice, I might have a go tomorrow.....