Sunday, May 31, 2009

Now Playing: Your Water Drop Photos


Here's a quick slideshow of some of the water drop photography already showing up in the Strobist pool since Friday's tutorial post.

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21 Comments:

Blogger pixel said...

how about a milkdrop?
http://pixelcatcher.de/bild.php?bild_id=1211&seite=1

May 31, 2009 1:07 PM  
Blogger ed pingol said...

awesome... simply awesome.

//ed

May 31, 2009 1:12 PM  
Anonymous Myron said...

Oh no I just woke up but it's still Sunday in Hawai and you already published the weekend photoshoot, "What Pau already?"

May 31, 2009 1:52 PM  
Anonymous Fokke van Saane said...

For me, nothing beats this guy from Belgium:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/sets/72157604178274003/

and

http://www.pbase.com/fotoopa

and

http://fotoopa.smugmug.com/

This is so good, i lost all motivation to start this kind of photography. :-)

May 31, 2009 2:51 PM  
OpenID matt-ferrell said...

I've done water drops before, with mild success. But seeing your post here sparked an interest to try again. It's always fun because < forestgump > you never know what you're gonna get < /forestgump >.

My results came out alot better this time. So thanks for that spark to try again! Some of my tries can be seen at:
http://matt-ferrell.livejournal.com/274433.htmlI colored the water with paper *under* the bowl though instead of the way the video did it. Next time I'll try the *flash into colored paper* way too. =)

May 31, 2009 2:57 PM  
Blogger Ken said...

Hey David,

You should encourage people to try out fluids different from water (and things dissolved in water). I haven't been able to get my hands on 100% alcohol, but if you can, I believe the droplets form differently. If you add alcohol to water, cool things happen, too (Marangoni effect)!

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00847.htm

May 31, 2009 3:20 PM  
Blogger Ben said...

this has been fun, and I had a few in the slide show. I think I will experiment more tomorrow with more drop photography. I am going to need another assignment Dave. Feed Me!

May 31, 2009 4:30 PM  
Blogger Ben said...

This has been fun, and good work guys. I did have a few in the slide show, and I had a good time doing drop photography, and will probably do more tomorrow. I need another assignment Dave, Feed Me!!

May 31, 2009 4:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is incredible fun. Only one question. What are the better lenses to use?

May 31, 2009 5:56 PM  
Blogger pixel said...

Hello David,

how about some thousands of drops at once?
I have made a little Video on how to photograph an exploding waterbomb. It is online on vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/4932871

I'd be happy to see it also on strobist.com

Michael

May 31, 2009 7:30 PM  
Anonymous Martin said...

I had some fun with coloured water drops and milk! See my blog for more info and pics.

May 31, 2009 10:15 PM  
Blogger Heipel said...

Bravo. Beautiful results, all!

May 31, 2009 10:21 PM  
Blogger SS Buchanan said...

It's funny guys saying they have a few shots in there... that's right, because its just searching the group, so anyone who tags their pics right will get a shot in the slideshow :)

I'm seconding what Fokke van Saane said, those shots are stunning, and leave that guy on Time Warp for dead!

May 31, 2009 11:01 PM  
Anonymous Alex said...

i will try it, thanks a lot!

June 01, 2009 8:14 AM  
Blogger LopezPhoto said...

These are great. I need to try it. Such a simple concept.

June 01, 2009 3:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Something with this post, I'm guessing the Flickr object, is making my browser (Opera) do crazy things. My mouse disappears after siting idle in any of my open tabs for ~5 sec.
Closing this site makes the issue go away immediately.

I love the site, but this is very annoying. Thanks for having a look at it.

June 01, 2009 10:14 PM  
Blogger David said...

@Anonymous-

This page had gotten over 25,000 views today by the time you posted your hang-up report.

Only about 2.5% of the people who view the site do so on Opera. So there could be compatibility issues with Flickr's slideshow module. But that is still ~625 views on Opera before the first report, so who knows.

Sorry that it is annoying, tho.

-DH

June 01, 2009 10:50 PM  
Blogger gutter said...

... cool there are two of my shots :D ...

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Blogger Radek Wierzbicki said...

Your tutorial made me try myself with a nice effect I think. I love the shallow water and the crown splash. Take a look:
http://www.radekw.com/blog/2009/05/31/water-drop-photography/

THANX!

August 26, 2009 7:34 AM  

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