Water Drop Photography
Yesterday, I read a post from the Strobist.com about water drop photography which is something I’ve been wanting to explore for a while; or I should say something I’ve been wanting to try again. I’ve tried it once in the past but it was a total failure. This time I did my homework and then went on to the task.
Humbly speaking, I was amazed by how the pictures turned out and very pleased by how the colors reflected on the water and the clarity of the pictures. I already have ideas of things I will do next time to get better results but that’s just part of the learning process. For those of you thinking “how boring can photographing a drop of water must be”, let me tell you I never thought doing this would be so much fun and interesting. We certainly can’t appreciate what happens when a drop hits a surface because of the speed at which it occurs, but once we’re able to freeze the moment we start appreciating the physics behind drops, tension, momentum, kinetic energy, sound and all those things some of us studied in college but never look at again.
For this attempt I used two strobes positioned left and right of the camera with different colored gels. Here are some of the pictures. (Note: There is no Photoshop involved here, I only use a batch process to add the copyright stamp, other than that what you see is what I got straight from the camera):
