the "goblin"
Moderators: rjlittlefield, ChrisR, Chris S., Pau
-
Carl_Constantine
- Posts: 304
- Joined: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:02 am
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Contact:
Actually this was pretty simple.
First I got a plastic water bottle (we drink it by the case) and made a pin hole in it (tiny, took 3 tries) to be my milk "dripper". Suspended over the sink from an expandable curtain rod stuck between the cabinets.
Receiver was a black ceramic cereal bowl (from a resale shop) set on top of a tupperware container to get the edge above the sink. I hung a black towel on the wall behind the sink (wife hasn' found that yet). I then floated a piece of black construction foam (that real thin stuff you get in sheets at hobby lobby) on the the water in the bowl. Foam was a good splash target. Made a few drops and stuck a straight pin into the foam for my focus target, set the focus, removed the pin. Liquid type/depth makes a big difference in how the drop/splash looks. Experiment.. Red splash was just food coloring in the milk.
Set the camera (on tripod directly in front) level just below the rim of the bowl. Used a remote flash on the left side (setting on another tupperware container in the other sink and slightly BELOW the bowl) triggered with an optical slave. Another flash shooting straight up (bounced off the ceiling to keep it from exposing the container) to trigger the remote flash .
I used a 200mm macro lens (to get back far enough to avoid splashing the lens too bad) and shot most of them at 1/60 sec and f22 (to underexpose everything but the drop) with the flashes in manual mode at 1/16 power (shortest flash duration). Shutter speed doesn't matter within reason as it's the flash duration that's freezing the drop. If you get the shutter too slow, aperture to wide or too much room light, you'll start geting fuzzy images as it exposes the shot without the flash. Get a good rhythm going and you can get a pretty good successful capture ratio going.
There, that's all you get (unless you need more (-:}).
I have a whole gallery of these things (all done basically the same way) out HERE.
Here you can see the foam block (camera a little too high) and my focus target..
First I got a plastic water bottle (we drink it by the case) and made a pin hole in it (tiny, took 3 tries) to be my milk "dripper". Suspended over the sink from an expandable curtain rod stuck between the cabinets.
Receiver was a black ceramic cereal bowl (from a resale shop) set on top of a tupperware container to get the edge above the sink. I hung a black towel on the wall behind the sink (wife hasn' found that yet). I then floated a piece of black construction foam (that real thin stuff you get in sheets at hobby lobby) on the the water in the bowl. Foam was a good splash target. Made a few drops and stuck a straight pin into the foam for my focus target, set the focus, removed the pin. Liquid type/depth makes a big difference in how the drop/splash looks. Experiment.. Red splash was just food coloring in the milk.
Set the camera (on tripod directly in front) level just below the rim of the bowl. Used a remote flash on the left side (setting on another tupperware container in the other sink and slightly BELOW the bowl) triggered with an optical slave. Another flash shooting straight up (bounced off the ceiling to keep it from exposing the container) to trigger the remote flash .
I used a 200mm macro lens (to get back far enough to avoid splashing the lens too bad) and shot most of them at 1/60 sec and f22 (to underexpose everything but the drop) with the flashes in manual mode at 1/16 power (shortest flash duration). Shutter speed doesn't matter within reason as it's the flash duration that's freezing the drop. If you get the shutter too slow, aperture to wide or too much room light, you'll start geting fuzzy images as it exposes the shot without the flash. Get a good rhythm going and you can get a pretty good successful capture ratio going.
There, that's all you get (unless you need more (-:}).
I have a whole gallery of these things (all done basically the same way) out HERE.
Here you can see the foam block (camera a little too high) and my focus target..
D50,100 IR, 90, 700, 800E and a box of old manual lenses.