No use crying over spilt milk!

[smac]

Experimenting with my new camera and flash, just couldn't get a really sharp image of the milk droplets....any ideas forthcoming would be appreciated!




Second image is a tribute to Aussie Dave who won the picture of the week for his card throw!........I was fascinated by the photo and the concept, I am sure his method was far more scientific than mine as it took me two of my sons and 84 images to get this one.......



Cheers (and thanks for the idea Aussie Dave)


Stuart

[WadeM]

84 cards? Man, what a good son! That's 52 pick up 1.6 times!

Like his shirt, lol

--Wadem

[big pix]

to get a sharper image in your milk pix work at least f16 and side light your milk drop to add contrast........a good starting point.....

cheers
...bp

[flipfrog]

wow
both cool images!

[Catcha]

Nice attempt............give me some ideas to toss around with as well , great overall shots

[kipper]

What sort of shutter speeds are we looking at for catching splashes?

Is there a technique to firing the shutter, to ensure a good chance of capturing the splash?

[smac]

These shots were made with a 2 sec shutter speed in a dark room, I used a SB800 flash manually (off camera) to freeze the scene.

Couldn't think of any other way to do it with my limited photographic knowledge...

Stuart

[sirhc55]

When I have done this I have used the SB800 on camera, aperture priority at f/16 and 1/60th sec shutter speed. Preset manual focus and continuous shooting mode. I fire off a 3-4 frame sequence whilst dropping water from a height (works for milk too)

[today.com]

Awesome pictures, well done... how long have you been snapping? Anyway, another great effect is the running of liquid, on a down hill surface. Instead of using water or milk, try glycerin, which is thicker and thus falls slower, and can be mistaken as water. Make the background a strong and interesting colour, so when the glycerin is shot, it will act as a lens on the backdrop, which will make for an awesome photograph. The purpose of my advice is that you appear to be a much more experienced photographer then myself, and therefore I believe you could put this effect to good use, looking forward to seeing you put it up... but in the mean time , keep up the good work.

[avkomp]

many years ago, whilst still at school in fact we did lots of work with high speed photography. water splashing, glass breaking, projectiles hitting apples etc.

These were shot with film back then. The best cameras had top shutter speeds of around 1/1000 to 1/2000 sec which would still be too slow to freeze the action we were capturing.

On the other hand the flash interval of electonic flash can be as short as 1/60,000 sec or even higher in some cases

We set the action up in a darkroom with the camera shutter open (bulb)
when we fire a flash, then in total darkness virtual shutter speed achieved is the flash duration only. Thus we were effectively shooting at 1/60,000 sec or faster

we actually used a sound trigger with variable delay to fire a single flash at a time delay we specified. We were able to capture some great stuff this way.
Without the sound trigger, you could just set the camera up on a tripod, in a darkroom, trigger the camera in bulb (or even a shot delay of 10sec or so) long enough to get what ever it is you are trying to capture in motion, then to fire a single off camera flash using the test button or however it works on your flash

What was interesting and stays in my vision to this day is that when the event actually happened, you saw it very clearly frozen with your eyes.

These days of course, with the digital, you can see what you captured immediately.

I still have my sound trigger sitting on the shelf, havent used it for 25 years. I often wonder if it still works.

anyway, sorry for the long post and also if the stuff I said is common knowledge to everyone.
Steve