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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
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this is very helpfull thx
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*Creative--Dragon Jul 30, 2011  Professional Photographer
You're welcome :) one of these days I'll be doing another tutorial with my latest setup ;)
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I think it turned out good for the first time : [link]
The focus and colours can still be better but that will come later :p your tutorial is good
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*Creative--Dragon Apr 24, 2011  Professional Photographer
That's how i used to capture drops... that's not my new way of doing it :P
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but it worked :) the only problem is I need to close my I eyes because the flash is to big XD
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~TheSoftCollision Jan 4, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
If you have 50 shots, how about merging 5 together so it looks like you see the drop at different heights falling
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*Creative--Dragon Jan 5, 2011  Professional Photographer
I could... I'm just lazy ;)
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~TheSoftCollision Jan 4, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
I use a D90 and SB-600 as well, with a couple of lenses but no Macro.

I see the remote shutter release as unneccesary for this - if the shot is lit entirely by flash then touching the camera button doesn't affect the shot which is frozen at 2000th to 400 000th of a second or something like that which is what the manual says the flash flashes at.

I assume you the shot have the exposure changed so that no room light is in the shot. So like 400th of a second (then FP Sync would be on but no problem, unless you shoot hummingbirds).

If you wanted ambient light, then at 60th or 30th of a second or whatever, but I think then Rear Curtain should definately be on so flash goes off at the start of the exposure.


have you done any remote flash work with this? What about bouncing flash off the roof? Or setting the remote and built in flash on at the same time so they light the drop from different sides
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*Creative--Dragon Jan 5, 2011  Professional Photographer
So with the new way I do things, I actually have the flash pointed at different colored cloth in the background. The light reflects off the cloth and onto the water (Green Convergence is an example of one of the photos I have taken like this)...
I use the remote shutter release to prevent any possibility of camera shake... their probably wouldn't be any anyway... but I have the remote, why not use it?
Also, in this tutorial I had the flash on camera... now I have the flash off camera and I use the D90 as the commander unit. I plan on eventually getting an sbu800 and an sb900 so I can have two off camera flashes for this type of work... I also thought about getting a ring flash... could prove interesting with macro water drop shots :D
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~TheSoftCollision Jan 4, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
*bounce off the ceiling
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