Day 10: water, water every where...

Day 10 made me pursue something i've been wanting to do for a while now: freeze water droplets, splashing in water.

I've researched it and have all the equipment to do it, but i just never set it up and actually did it. I think the only thing holding me back was not having the proper set up area, or way to hang a bag of water in the air and drop it into a pan.

So today i found that if i hang a bag from my open dresser drawer and set everything up on the floor, that i could accomplish this feat :)

So i set up a black t-shirt under a clear casserole dish. the flash is bounced off a white folder and just started firing away. I had a hard time getting the full drip. A lot of the shots were just ripples in the water, so i had to mess around with shutter speed and just continuously fired at the streaming drops.

 so out of the first couple of shots, these were the only in focus and not just ripples, but i didn't like that you could see the etching on the bottom of the dish, it was too in focus and took away from the drops.

so i put the camera's white balance on florescent (turns the white to a blue tint) and took some shots, but didn't get any great in focus ones.

Then i decided to bounce the flash off of a red piece of paper while also on the florescent setting, and success!

These were the 3 best shots i got. i think i want to attempt this again, maybe on a table top surface, cuz crawling on the ground started to hurt my knees. possibly even try it tethered so i can see the in focus or not right away, the view finder is deceiving.

*note-this is technically a day late, i was super busy yesterday and didn't get home till after 2 in the morning, so yesterdays post was posted a today (a day late). today's post will be on in a little.