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Archive for October, 2008

OK, let’s take a little break from photographing drops as I need to play around a little more with setting up some unique water drop splashing equipment so as to get some really unique shots.

The thing with digital cameras is that it allows you to upload the photos to your computer so that you can do a little editing. This may range from cropping, fixing red eyes to something a little more dramatic like this dragon hovering over my front yard.

Dragon

It was quite simple really, a photo of my favorite pewter dragon, another of the the skyline from my front yard, then you just cut out the dragon and superimpose it over the skyline.

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Series II Of Catching Water Drops

I tried a few different things in this series just to see what would happen. The first few uses a white ceramic dish to hold the water.

monster escape

Reckon I caught this one just as it hit the water as you can still see the top of the drop.
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Freezing the actual drop before impact.
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The Big Splash
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These were all taken with the flash.
I then changed to an orange plastic bowl for the next shots.
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Interesting crater effect.
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Another drop frozen in motion. Interesting the way the colors are inverted.
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Remember that these were all taken with a point and shoot digital which presented several difficulties over and above one of timing. The worst one had to be focusing. It would have been so much easier if the camera had a manual focusing setting. Still I am pleased with the results.

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My Attempts In Capturing Water Drops

My inspiration for this series was a set of photos I discovered on Tim’s Digital Darkroom. Tim’s done a few of these series and I know he uses something a little better than a point and shoot digital. The thing is that I wanted to see what I could achieve with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50 and so I set up all the equipment I needed in the kitchen sink and these are the results.

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This next one almost looks like a penis emerging from a pool of water and perhaps that is a drop of sperm flying through the air.
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emerging phallus

This next one is unbelievable and definitely my favorite. The water that this apparition emerged from was the most turbulent out of all the photos that I took during this series of photos. Can you see the face in the resulting splash?
Apparition In Splash

No, well perhaps a closeup of the shot is needed.
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I showed the photo to my daughter and the first thing she said was that it reminded her of the Virgin Mary. Personally I think that it the features are definitely male and that the person is wearing a veil or something over his or her head. I can just imagine the furor if some religious nut came up with this photo.

So, I would be really interested in knowing what you saw in the photo?

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