I have chosen to base this years work on water. I think the medium of water will be an exciting one to shoot. One area that excites me is close up imagery and in particular water drops. I have seen a lot of these images on the web and the amazing variety of splashes is like a miniature world that is not very often seen as it happens so quickly and is very small.
Plans For The Shoot:
For this first shoot I plan to try and capture a freeze frame shot of a droplet of water. I am going to experiment with some ink droplets as well to add a level of colour to the shoot as well. The issue I think i'm going to have with trying to get the desired photo is the timings because from what i've seen of people trying to do this timing was the number one issue in getting the droplet.
What I Actually Achieved:
In this first shoot I decided to try and photograph water drops. Which proved to be a lot harder than I expected. I looked at a few pictures of setups and had also decided that a fish tank would be best for this. I set it up in a semi dark room and used off camera flash to both sides of the image with a 100mm macro lens.
I also suspended an old copper pipe full of water with a valve at the end so I got one drop of water to drop every few seconds then just started to shoot. To be honest this was rubbish. The images were blurred and out of focus. I tried the fastest sync shutter speed of 250th second with an aperture of around f11 so I had some depth of field as the water would not always drop in exactly the same place.
I was also shooting through glass which was no good either. Then I tried using a studio lights on full power to try and light the drops. This was even worse. What I discovered was 1. The more I turn up the studio lights the longer they are on for so that I get blur. I also get blur through the side of a fish tank. I also get blur as the mirror in the camera flips up and down when taking the shot.
So I tried again firstly with my flash turned down as I had discovered this vastly shortens the flash duration and thus freezes the motion of the drops. Secondly the camera shutter speed does not control the exposure its the flash speed. Also by using mirror lock up I can help stop shake even when using a tripod. I also used the small aperture so maximise my depth of field. I also stopped using the fish tank and just used a dish of water, got the camera and flash in real close and you can see the results here. I also tried to shoot some in a really bright room using ambient light and this worked on some shots. Still nowhere close to what I see on the internet though but it is a start. Also despite using these setting I still did not get many good shots and looking back at my exposures now it was rather random.
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| 1/250th second f5 ISO 400 no flash but in a really bright sunny room using a macro 100mm lens. |
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| 1/8000 second f2.8 with flash using a macro 100mm lens. |
Progression:
This man http://www.photosbykev.com/wordpress/tips-and-trick/water-droplet-photography/ takes fantastic shots. I would like to get much closer to these and try again from different angles I also like the use of ink and colour in water so would like to try this as well.
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| This shot used inks and gel to light using off camera flash and manual mode in a dark room 1/4 second at f16-22 iso 100. |
as discussed on the 21/03/2016 you need to convert the work diary entries to work records… A good post with a description of how you took the photographs. You still need to show some analysis of your images for this post and all the others that you create that you look for opportunities to describe the images in terms of denotation: (you could discuss in this case the composition, form and colour/tones within the image). You also need to review the connotations associated with the image… this may be difficult for tis particular post but consider again the colours and the way e.g. the colour red can symbolise a range of meanings.. perhaps you can think of some and add it to your blog post.
ReplyDeleteBe careful with your choice of language, move this away from the vernacular (everyday language) to a more formal mode of communication ( To be honest this was rubbish.) Also review the grammar on your post "its"
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