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I created this tutorial at the request of another DA member. Honestly, I wish I'd had something like this when I first started doing water drops a few years ago. 
Anyhow, I hope this helps anyone looking to do drop work.
Feel free to leave comments and ask questions
Cheers,
Stephen
Anyhow, I hope this helps anyone looking to do drop work.
Feel free to leave comments and ask questions
Cheers,
Stephen
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A lot of folk use a flash 'trigger' to catch the drop. You darken the room, set the shutter speed to 'bulb'. When the water droplet breaks the light beam, it triggers the flash. And you can adjust the delay between the time the droplet breaks the beam, and the flash fires. flash triggers have 'all sorts' of uses. like photographing popping balloons and birds in flight. Especially humming birds, who have extremely fast wing beats.
Also, the lower the power setting on your flash, the shorter duration of the actual flash. This is because it takes a large amount of current to jump the gap in the flash tube, but once the connection is made, it doesn't take much to keep it open, so the flash unit 'dumps' the remaining power back to the capacitor.
You can spend thousands on a trigger from a professional camera store, or order one from HIVIZ.COM for under a hundred bucks.
The results can be seen here...[link]
Also, the lower the power setting on your flash, the shorter duration of the actual flash. This is because it takes a large amount of current to jump the gap in the flash tube, but once the connection is made, it doesn't take much to keep it open, so the flash unit 'dumps' the remaining power back to the capacitor.
You can spend thousands on a trigger from a professional camera store, or order one from HIVIZ.COM for under a hundred bucks.
The results can be seen here...[link]