Water Photography

Over the weekend I decided that I wanted to try something a little different than star trails and lights in motion when I took a peek over at Mladen's blog and saw some videos on water droplet photography. I noticed in Nilan (after several attempts to take pictures of water droplets in my room that failed) that one of the faucets was dripping, so I set up my tripod and started snapping away.

After about 95 shots were taken, I went back up to my room and decided to go through all the footage and see what pictures came out the best. From the original 95, I got what I think are 22 really good images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really like how some of these images came out and it was definitely more of a challenge in some ways than longer exposure photography simply because the timing had to be absolutely perfect in order to get a water droplet in the image. With the other images I have done so far, it was more or less, "Oh, this should look cool, but if it doesn't I'll just set it for another 30 seconds of 60 seconds and try again." I feel like there was a lot more trial and error to be done with this more high speed set of photographs.

Here are a few of the images that have been retouched: