Steemit Photo Challenge - High-speed Photography - Entry 2 - Impact

mweich (66)in #steemitphotochallenge • 6 years ago

Impact!

This is one shot though it does look like to have been combined! I was using a plastic straw as a dropper and dropped a few more than a single drop!

Using an off camera flash (Canon 480Ex II) at 1/64th power, gives a flash duration of about 1/31,000th second!

Pro tip: Make sure to clean up the milk that splashes off the plate before it dries, I learned that the hard way last time. This time clean up was easy!

Gear: Sony a7R iii, Sigma 105mm Macro lens, Canon 480EX II; Post: Lightroom CC

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6 years ago in #steemitphotochallenge by mweich (66)

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irreverent-dan (60) 6 years ago

I tried once high-speed photogrpahy with milk, and I know how many drops it takes before you have a decent shot. Great capture, man! The drop that hits the milk looks perfect :)

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mweich (66) 6 years ago

Thanks @irreverent-dan!

I deleted so many pictures of a plate of flat uninteresting milk, can only laugh about it now!

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noopu (67) 6 years ago

Amazing! How to do like this?

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mweich (66) 6 years ago (edited)

Well...

Set up your camera on a tripod and set your focus on the subject area, in this case a plate. I put something on it to focus on first and line up some stuff to indicate the target area where of be doing the milk/water.

Set up your of camera flash to the side, or wherever you want the light coming from.
Putting the flash on the side give visible shadows on the subject and provides depth to the photo. Using the flash on the camera will result in no shadows visible from the camera point of view and render a very flat photo.

I have the camera and flash on remotes, one for the camera and a transmitter on the camera to signal the flash.

Camera settings: set it on manual focus once you've got the lens focused on the subject area.
Manual exposure settings! f8 ish, 1/80s, ISO 200 (lowish). You want the settings to give a black or very dark underexposed picture without the flash firing.
Flash settings: 1/64th is what I used, the lower the power the faster the flash of light is and the effective exposure time is shorter. The Canon 480EX II at 1/64 has a flash duration of about 1/31,000. But the lower the power the closer it needs to be to the subject or the higher your ISO needs to be set. I just try moving the settings on the flash and camera until I get the result in looking for. Yay, digital photography!

Once everything is set up it's time to start taking pictures!

For this shot I dropped milk from a plastic straw onto the plate, many many many times until you get something you like! Some people have timed electronic droppers synced to the camera and all kinds of crazy gear, they produce some outstanding works of art!

Bad set up diagram: