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- vroom101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35"Milk Meets Coffee"
http://www.pbase.com/daria90/milk_meets_coffee_splashes - spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Very Beauti.....oh gotta pee...
edit: dammit, esoteric beat me to it, now I have to wait until he's done. - esotericguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Great, now I have to go to the bathroom!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19how much?
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16well.... you deliver exactly what your username says...
- JoshuaH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13http://duggmirror.com/general_sciences/PICTURES_Fabulous_Water_Drop_Photography/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16"FABULOUS" is the new "AMAZING"
- foshizol, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Very nice
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Thats cute that you atempt to act tough yet you fail in actually making something insulting
This is artwork you dick, and a lot of the time people post their artwork on Digg, which is fine - dvdcpu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Try enabling cookies.
- hirak99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4twoodge urs are as good as the 'professional' ones shown here... how did u get the golden color?
- criscofats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Strange, I thought it said "Fabulous Water Drop Pornography", threw me for a loop there for a minute, but very nice none the less.
- MONEY24, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Get firefox.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3" by imrankarim 41 minutes ago
hydrogen bonding at its finest
imran karim"
Just a tad redundant, no? - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These are the kind of photographs that are satisfying for a photographer to execute but kind of cliche unless there's something original about them.
- Twoodge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Great stuff. I especially like the first, third, fourth and fifth. The post-processed toning on them is a good idea, too. I tried doing some water drop photography in the sink (very unprofessional, I know =P) about a month ago and it's quite literally hit-and-miss. Most of the time you get the splahes just as they're coming down or going up, but patience is a virtue, eh?
Anyway, my feeble attempts:
1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/centraljake/398900969/
2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/centraljake/398769780/ - dw2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Would have been nicer if they were wallpaper sizes
- coverlim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3im a fan of this strawberry drop http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?photo_id=5754
- eshiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here's some video from a high speed cam
http://artbeats.com/prod/product.php?pg=1&id=364 - Arkitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They are very cool looking and well done, obviously the photographer has some talent, but do we really need more pictures of water drops? That being said, +1 digg for this guys talent.
- ChocoMidget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a side note if any of you guys want to try this. Make sure that your strobe is at its lowest power setting. Typically I use a Profoto 7A and I think its Flash duration time is something like 1/20,000th of a second, im probably wrong but its that or 1/12,000th of a second. The key to taking these pictures is all in the flash duration. Strobe duration is fastest at lower power settings, so if you can imagine when we shoot these things in order to pull off f/11 or f/16 you need about 9 strobe packs. You need the duration to be incredibly short otherwise you will get motion blur on your droplet. Don't be alarmed even your typicall Canon 550 or 580 or whatever nikon equvilant can make these pics happen as well, just make sure its on the lowest power setting. I do not know how many of you guys actually know your way around a strobe pack, but dont bother trying to use any of them for this unless its a Broncolor or a Profoto 7A, go look up the data sheets the min flash duration required to capture a droplet of water is around 1/10,000th of a second.
- JohnyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Like.... totally................ dude...
- dreamsINdigital, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Here's one that I took. =)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4406134/ - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great advice, ChocoMidget.
- MoonZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can knock yourself off with this big forum thread about water drops pics:
http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/Photonumerique/Technique/photos-gouttes-sujet_1054_1.htm (FR) - katiey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1fabulous? no. good timing? yes. but then again, how exciting did I think water would be.
they either make me thirsty or want to go swimming - ChocoMidget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually the only real way of doing this without killing yourself is to use computer controlled timing devices. I've done several of these types of drips and have a varried assorment of devices. We have infared laser that when the beam is broken triggers the device. Also have incredibly sensitive microphones, as well as various other motion detectors. I'd actually give out my website to show you, but that would be pure suicide and I will not post my work on Flickr.
If anyone is wondering the way this is typically done is to enclose yourself in a completely dark room, no light whatsoever. You place what is basically an IV drip system above what photographers call a piece of black glass. It literally is a piece of glass with a black bottom. Put that in a water tank of sorts with usually water just covering the surface. Then you place a large diffusion flat roughly five feet by six feet behind the tank at a 45 degree angle facing the camera. Behind that you put your stobe. You set up the computer controlled timer on a specific delay to the milisecond and hook it up to your strobe pack. You place the sensor at the point where the IV is dripping liquid and place it so that it breaks an infared beam which is attached to your timer. Then you simply place your camera on bulb, wait for a flash to pop and close the shutter. Dial in your times etc etc till you have exactly what you need.Digital makes this very easy but I used to run through boxes of polaroids getting my timing nailed down.
Fun stuff. It used to require a few days in the studio to pull this stuff off. - shannobn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In my limited knowledge of photography it takes a lot of shots (100~) to get 'the shot' shown in these photographs. Really cool.
- Kaer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All sink photography. I haven't yet rigged up a set-up where I can take photos of drops with better precision, but in the mean time I've acquired two powerful spotlights which will really help with the lighting. It's crucial to get a good DOF of the drop although that can be very hard when you got shaky hands.
I never shoot with the flash pointing directly at the drop, it creates too many bright halos and casts shadows in the background. It's best to bounce the light off a nearby wall or a piece of paper. As most were saying, it's quite hit & miss, you could go through a 100 or more shots and not having anything worth showing for it. If you have a good sense of timing (and a good faucet), you can get a rhythm going with the drops which will help a lot and get a good photo every 1-10 pictures taken.
Another thing, try different drop types. Streaming drops will look vastly different that single drops. Try making those drops land on different objects to get different splash effects. Water on water is great, but try something else instead. Also depending on how thick your water stream is, you'll have more/less air bubbles in it. Use that to your advantage and try getting closer to capture those air bubbles, it gives a completely different outlook on water.
If you want some wacky colors to your water without the water coloring, add a bunch of colored objects around your set-up. The bounced light / flash will illuminate these objects and add color to your drops.
http://kevinpelletier.smugmug.com/gallery/2437042#127802011 - Tiny air bubbles in drops
http://kevinpelletier.smugmug.com/gallery/2437042#127801753 - Bubble-less drop
http://kevinpelletier.smugmug.com/gallery/2437042#127802144 - Swallow DOF, drop out of focus but splash is in focus. Moving 1mm forward or backwards can make a big difference.
http://kevinpelletier.smugmug.com/gallery/2437042#127998319 - Colored objects around
http://kevinpelletier.smugmug.com/gallery/2437042#127807645 - In the sink, water drops falling on the sink plug for different splash effects.
- quick5pnt0cobra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I personally like these two, but then again they're mine so...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quick5pnt0/186969030/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quick5pnt0/185273434/ - jessestimpson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My favorite:
http://www.deviantart.com/print/257622/ - justinkwaugh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lots of nice ones here too: http://liquidsculpture.com
- d3faultnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2the first one looks fake... :-X
- Ruhtar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice!
Except when you get to the bottom and run into the very annoying animated ad. I know a person has to make a buck but to destroy the feeling one gets from looking at the great art of the photography by the artless annoyance of commercialism sort of ruins the effect. :-(
Still, beautiful photographs!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Um...wooop dee doo? I have a picture of my dog licking his balls, can we put that on the front page of Digg too?
No seriously, is was awesome...
really.. - Nepenthes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of my attempts at water drop photography. Very difficult and involves lots of hit and miss - which is why I build a custom computer controlled timer which could set the exposure to fire at any time after the drop falls through an opto-trigger down to the nearest millisecond. It all led up to this piece:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1997156/
At which point I got bored. The really interesting thing was the repeatability. If I dialed in 23ms, I would get practically the same shot every time, despite the kludged up nature of the apparatus. Certainly some sort of timer would be a must for any photographer trying these sorts of shots seriously. - abielupt, on 04/20/2008, -0/+0High speed photography always fascinated me. Please check some of my high speed photography water pictures:
http://www.universaltimer.com/gallery1.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow! Great photos!
- hirak99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1fabulous?!! okayish
- itsnessen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0My attempts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/376255205/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/376255197/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/374242172/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/374242126/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/374221770/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/374221742/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/its_nessen/374221703/ - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Thaats Simply Fab-ulous!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1meh
- johnsatre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0the photos are great
the compression is horrible - N080dy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Fabulous.
- pplante, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1uhh why isn't there a picture of regan crying in there? ;)
- JoshuaH, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Then, Um, Don't Digg...Thats how this site works.
- imrankarim, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1hydrogen bonding at its finest
imran karim - Cyre, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Meh...it's drops of water. Big deal.
- Battleloser, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Water sucks, it really really sucks
Water sucks, it really really sucks - sally00, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Nice pictures.
And btw, why the crap does DIGG not remember me even though I keep checking the REMEMBER ME checkbox???
And I'm not even opening up a new window. -
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