Project 4 Complete: Water Drops

   I'm trying to get ahead to my deadline of Sunday so maybe I can play some golf this weekend.  The goal this week was to try my hand at water drop macro photography.  Well let me tell you, based on today's experience it's not as easy as it looks OR at least it wasn't for me.
   My first issue is that I hardly ever use a flash.  I had to read the manual to figure out how to get my camera to wirelessly trigger the flash and how to configure the flash to receive the signal.  All that was pretty easy once I located the right pages.
   Setting up was a little more difficult.  I wish I had taken a picture of my setup, maybe next time.  Anyway I had a shallow clear glass pyrex dish filled with water sitting on the kitchen counter, a stool on the counter and a piece of white board propped up against it.  On the seat of the stool was a long metal clamp (think the kind that holds boards together), which I was using to suspend the baggie over the pyrex dish.  To hold this baggie I had a large clamp.  Oh I forgot to hold the metal clamp in place I use one of my photo backpacks.
   Time to shoot.  I placed the flash to the left of the camera at 45 degrees aimed at the white background.  The goal wasn't to directly light the water but have the light bounce to illuminate freeze the splash.  The most difficult thing to do was to get the baggie to release the right amount of water.  It was either too much or too little.  I think I'm going to try this again but using the kitchen sink.
    Anyway, here are what I thought were the most interesting of the shots I came out with.  Oh, if you want to get the image blue just change your white balance to tungsten.

Kings Crown

Water Polo

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Enjoy,

Masamitsu