A simple and fun way to photograph water drops
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2020
- This is one of my favorite in-home photography projects. The whole setup only took about 15 minutes (with a frying pan, a ziplock bag, water, my camera and flash) and it was surprisingly easy to get great photos freezing water drops in the air. It was so easy that I thought "This would make a great video to show you all how to do this at your house" and so I set out to shoot this "How-to" video. I hope you give this a try!
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I've watched a few of these videos and the zip lock bag: that's brilliant. And the key - so simple, but I wouldn't have been able to figure it out. Love the simplification of the backgrounds. Thanks for a great video, Jeff.
Followed your video like a cookbook recipe. People were astonished with my results and especially when I explained to them what they were looking at. Great instruction!
You make this sound easy -- and fun. I'm going to have to get the instruction book out for my off camera flash to see how to operate it now!
Wow...This is amazing Jeff, Thank you for the information....
Thanks, Jeff - Your video is a great help. My first ever water drop photo session turned out far better than I hoped. All thanks to your video!
Awesome - Glad you were able to make it happen!
I love this idea! Stunning results. ❤
You should all share some of your results. I would love to see them.
SO cool! Great info! Totally want to try this!
Thank you so much for this information, I can’t wait to experiment and have fun…
Fun! The one thing I learned after trying this is that when water drops and hits the surface, you need a slight hesitation to get the column rising and rebounding. I want to try to get a hole the right size to get a collision effect. Macro photography is so cool! Thanks for sharing this Jeff.
Fantastic! You've just got new subscriber
I've just tried this with a Canon 80D with a 100mm Sigma macro lens, results were impressive thanks for the lesson. I used the same set up to photograph a splashing gin and tonic for a local venue.
I just tried this with my Cannon Rebel and used a 75-300 lense and the results were almost identical to the pictures he showed at the end of the video! I used the same camera settings he mentioned at the start of the video. If you have a camera I would suggest trying it.
Cool video.... easily explained. Thanks
Thanks! I tired this and got some GREAT SHOTS in a short time. Getting the focus dialed in was the limiting factor.. and finding an interesting background.
Awesome! Glad you were able to make it work for you. :)
Cool ! i'll try the setting as you do, thankyou.
This is a really great tutorial! Thank you for sharing
You are very welcome
Excellent info
I work for the edgerton center. He is the guy who came up with the strobe. And he is also famous for the picture of the water drop like that, which we have that hanging up in our museum. We had a device that you press a button and it made the drop like that and you can adjust the speed of the drop. Harold edgerton was also the father of stop motion photography and high speed photography.
This is really cool. Is there a web site to get more information about the center?
very clever setup
Great. Thank you so much.
This is amazing !!!
Glad you like it! :)
@@JeffCable very much ! I'm new to camera but I'm gonna try this . Its simple , beautiful and very artsy ! Thank you so much 🥰
Hi Jeff thanks for that, amazing results. Just a question for you. I have bought a flash and need to learn all about it. Are there any particular settings on the flash ? Thanks John
nice video.short and awsome.
That’s great! Would other lenses give similar results? I only have a 15-45mm lens..
great video! what kind of clamp did you use with your boom to old the plastic bag?
This is super cool stuff thanks for the great learnings
Great! Tks!
Thanks for sharing. I have subscribed
Fantastic. I have smartphone only. Realme7 i too tried to catch rain drop.... Result is 40 to 50 percent of yours... Here tough one is timing... 🙄👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cool!!
Hi Jef thanks for info, I just learning photography, this week and I never know how photographer can make water droplet, untill I saw this video. Really appreciated. But I have a question, how’s the back ground can be reflected in the water ? is it because you aim the flash direction to the background? if I don’t have flash would it be the same?
thank you
Veraska - you will really need a flash for this project for two reasons, first to light the background and create the reflection, but more importantly to freeze the droplet.
Beyond the Lenses 📷
wonderfull
Thanks
Sir thank you
Very cool, going to try to duplicate. Just need to buy stuff. Any recommendations on macro lense and remote flash
Depends on what kind of camera you are using. Any decent macro lens will work. As for flash, I prefer using flashes with wireless triggering, but it is not required.
@@JeffCable I will probably pickup up a used camera on OfferUp. Probably Sony or Fuji. Thanks for the tip on flash
Thank you
You are very welcome
what model lights are they... great video! going to try this!
I used the Canon 600EX-RT flashes for this.
Great tutorial one qeustion what is the ideal flash power
ETTL and let the flashes do the work for you. :)
Hi thanks for the video Geoff,what trigger are you using Geoff please is this a Pluto, I'm just getting started with photography, kind regards,
Jeff, sorry
I am using the Canon ST-E3-RT transmitter. :)
@@JeffCable Thank you,is that kinda like the same thing as Pluto?
Love it! What is the contraption holding the bag of water?
I just used one of my light stands with a boom arm to clamp the bag.
Thanks Jeff!
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How come you were shooting at f/16 and your image wasn’t completely black because I am trying to recreate the same thing and I have two soft box lights and a smaller daylight bulb. I’m not using flash as I don’t have any but I’m trying to shoot at 1/800th + and f/5 + so that it’s as crisp as possible but the image is really really dark so even when I’m in Lightroom I can’t really recover the shadows because it introduces so much grain and ruins the image. Have you got any advice?
The reason that the images are not black is that the strobes are strong enough to light the drop. They also freeze the drop regardless of the shutter speed.
@@JeffCable I love it ! what brand of flashes are you using there? thank u!
@@meryochoa2011 All Canon - mostly EX-600RT
i used burst mode on my cam so i can catch water drops
What's the arm holding the Ziploc bag? Where can I get one?
I used one of the attachable arms from one of my light stands. Get creative. :)
How many triggers do you need for 2 flashes?
One trigger can fire many flashes. :)
What flash lights are you using?
Using Canon flashes. You don't need more than that.
Merci
Love the tee where’d you find it?
A gift. It is the "Life is good" brand
I searched online even chatted with the company they told me they had no products with cameras. Love your videos… the search continues.
@@scotjohnson8612 That was given to me years ago. Probably not made anymore. :(
If you think people will think that's a mess, you need to go beyond the front door more often.
You have a black platter. Is that necessary??
Not really - but it probably helps a bit.
Were do you find this music 🎶 🎵.
Sorry - I can't remember. :(
How do you know exactly when to shoot?
You can just watch the water drops and guess at the best timing. It takes a little practice but...
Hi I take photos I would like it if you could please give me some tips on photography
can you just use your camera flash instead of multiple seperate flashes
That will probably not be enough flash power.
@@JeffCable Fair enough, guess i need more gear then. I really could do with a storage to store all the camera equipment that I only use occasionally. It's an expensive gig if you only use handful of times throughout the year.
How are you triggering your camera
I just used a remote cord. Inexpensive and it works. :)
Why ISO 800 it you could easily get ISO 100?
I found that ISO 800 worked well. You could also shoot at a lower ISO and power upo the flash a little more.
as you said it looks easy but its not man, too much "laboratury rehearsal"