lightoflifephotograp
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- Sep 22
- United States
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Yo Beth,
See you're into the water idea yourself.
Gimme a yell if you need any advice. I don't mean that in the pompous way it sounds. I'm just always happy to help out.
See you're into the water idea yourself.
Gimme a yell if you need any advice. I don't mean that in the pompous way it sounds. I'm just always happy to help out.
Ill take any tips you have. I'm just starting out on the water stuff so its a learning process. I have been using food coloring to give color to the drops. Ive also used my photos behind to bounce the light off to give color to the water. I think my biggest problem is my lens doesn't get close enough to capture the drops with more details.
Question time 
What flash are you using? What lens are you using?
Firstly from lookin' at your current pics, I suggest you have your camera at the same level as the water in the bowl. Like such:
Camera --> |_|-.......\___/ <-- bowl - Instead of lookin' down on it. That way you get the best plane of focus for them. Some nice wrapping paper does wonders for bokeh and such. Also marbles or glass beads in the water are rather good. Different drop heights make a difference too, usually the higher you drop from, the higher the drop "spire" If you have a look through my pics theres lots of different ideas, like collisions, floating drops and such. Another important thing, is shoot in low light. Have your flash on the lowest setting that's realistic for what you wanna acheive, that way you don't get "blur lines" (or whatever real picture takers call them) from reflections within the room (lights and the like) I'm sure I don't need to talk about different apertures and their effects. Just remember its the flash, not the shutter that "freezes" the drop.
Anythin' else, gimme a yell. I'm always around.
What flash are you using? What lens are you using?
Firstly from lookin' at your current pics, I suggest you have your camera at the same level as the water in the bowl. Like such:
Camera --> |_|-.......\___/ <-- bowl - Instead of lookin' down on it. That way you get the best plane of focus for them. Some nice wrapping paper does wonders for bokeh and such. Also marbles or glass beads in the water are rather good. Different drop heights make a difference too, usually the higher you drop from, the higher the drop "spire" If you have a look through my pics theres lots of different ideas, like collisions, floating drops and such. Another important thing, is shoot in low light. Have your flash on the lowest setting that's realistic for what you wanna acheive, that way you don't get "blur lines" (or whatever real picture takers call them) from reflections within the room (lights and the like) I'm sure I don't need to talk about different apertures and their effects. Just remember its the flash, not the shutter that "freezes" the drop.
Anythin' else, gimme a yell. I'm always around.
I have a Nikon D300 Ive been using the 18-70mm Nikon Lens. With a SB-600. Ive noticed a lot of the water photos I did had a lot of grainy areas is that just a light thing or is that in all water photos.
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You've gotta admit, you're pretty good at water shots... look forward to see you get really creative on it.... you've got the skills already........ 
Thank you. I'm looking forward to expanding my horizons in a lot of different areas. SO stay tuned
i like yer Water photos ^_^