brunok1

The Game

Handheld flash from a pocket camera, DSLR on a tripod, with selftimer. In the other hand a small bottle of water, dripping in a glas (in totally darkness, the f...
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Handheld flash from a pocket camera, DSLR on a tripod, with selftimer. In the other hand a small bottle of water, dripping in a glas (in totally darkness, the flash freezed the motion)
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NIKON D7000

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 100 Shutter 4/1 Focal Length 550/10

upload_date

Feb, 2015

Views

1120

Likes

+137

Awards

Featured

Contest Finalist in Water Drops Photo Contest

Peer Award

+47

Outstanding Creativity

+18

Absolute Masterpiece

Superb Composition

Top Choice

Superior Skill

Magnificent Capture

All Star

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Behind The Lens

Location

At home

Time

During a boring afternoon :-)

Lighting

I had no external flash, so i used a old pocket cam for the flash light from the left side. Picture taken in totally darkness, for freezing the drop. More details in the next field... I would create a cool background which gives good reflections in the drop. So, i took a colored paper (christmas paper) whit a lot of rainbow colored squares on it. Glued this paper on a cardboard (30cm x 30cm) and used it as the background.

Equipment

This was a "low cost" setup as i said. I have no external flash. So, the setup looked like this. In my left hand, pocket camera with flash activated, in the middle the D7000 on the tripod. 5 sec self timer with 4 secs exposure time. Then, right hand, a small bottle of water, for creating the drops. After manually focussing with help of a pencil exactly in the middle of the glas filled with water,the target was to a) hit the middle of the water with one single drop, and fire the flash with the other hand in the correct milisecond. And this in the 4 secs. of exposure. Because the long exposure i had to do this in a dark room... :-) I took about 20 pictures until i got it like this.

Inspiration

Try to do something new, and it was a theme of a contest.

Editing

Only cropping, contrast and sharpness as i shot in RAW this is necessary.

In my camera bag

Nikon D7000, some objectives (Sigma, Nikon) and the 30 year old manual Nikon 55micro / 2.8. This is a great lens for Macros and also portrait (around 80mm with crop factor of my D7000)

Feedback

Try things. Take a contest. Learn by doing, not only viewing videos etc. Use what you have, not the most expensive equipment gives good pictures. Even with low cost material you can have fun with your camera. BTW: this picture was selected from Nikon Europe as "Runner Up" Image :-) see more of my work at: www.kneubuehlers.net

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The Game

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