liquid photography

Favorite...

For my project I did drop liquid photography. I like how a few of my shots came out but because drop photography is based on the chance of getting a drop frozen. Because of needing my shutter speed to be really fast I had to work on adjusting other settings which made a good amount of my shots grainy. The two above are my favorite out of all of them. Sadly the blue one above has some grain to it. Between having the shutter speed to slow and the amount of grain in my shots not many came out really good. If I could do this again I would need to find ways to keep my shutter speed high enough and keeping the grain out of my photos. Another challenge I faced was focusing on the drop zone. To take my photos I attached a dropper to a yard stick that I set on top of the photo box but that didn't keep it truly in one place. It helped but, for me to be able to refill the dropper and be able to squeeze the dropper it had enough room to move around a little and exit my focused area.

Not the best, but I'm working on it...

This one I started to get the crown effect from the splash but my shutter speed wasn't high enough. Another thing was that this photo has a small amount of grain to it. I like the coloring to it but the flash from the camera was reflected into the liquid. Next time I take shots I need to find a way of lighting my shots better than what I did that way I don't need to use the flash on my camera.

The splash was cool and was what I was trying to get at in many of my shots... but it was too grainy. The angle that I took this photo from allowed the container to be shown -next time I need to take from a higher angle. 

For this shot I would have wanted to focus on the drop a little more than what it is. Again, because of how I had to have the dropper set up, the drops weren't always in the exact same spot. I really like the reflection in the photo because it allows us to see that the water that is flying forward is longer than what you think you see above the water. I like the color in this shot, but just like almost all my other shots this photo is grainy.

To get ready to take my shot I decided to get in contact with a few water drop artist. I got in contact with Corrie White and Martin Waugh. Corrie White ended up sending me her guide to water drop photograpy (cover below) and Martin Waugh was able to answer a few of my questions I had about how to take some good photos of liquids.

http://www.liquiddropart.com/

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/index.htm