Can’t see the video? Click here www.youtube.com Make a splash with your photography as digital photography expert Gavin Hoey www.gavtrain.com demonstrates the strobist set up required to capture the beauty hidden in a drop of water. … Photography set up tutorial technique strobist flash off camera macro still life gavin hoey gavtrain water splash drip
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Thanks great vid, makes me wanna grab my cam and go for it. Btw dont see the flash on the video, was it too fast for the videocam’s framerate?
Oh and electronics and water dont mix: nonsense. I had my 5DMKII under water for 3 min… okay okay admit it doesnt look “good as new” anymore.. but it DID survive.
Thanks once again!
Great Vid Gav!!! When you changed the background paper did you set the white balance back to Auto or did you leave it set to tungsten?
Mike.
ooo cool, i din´t saw that paper until he sayed
Great tutorial, do you happen to know the name of the crowning effect that can be achieved in some photos? It happens when a drop comes back out of the water and creates a perfect crown shape… I managed to capture one, and I know it has a name, because I read of it years ago, but cannot for the life of me remember it…
Great tutorial. Really helpful and really clear. Nice job Gavin
No, the flash duration is what stops the action, the shutter just has to be open long enough to capture the flash firing.
Perhaps, but remember it’s the flash duration that’s freezing the action not the shutter speed.
I’m hoping to try the new Pocket Wizards soon. I’ll upload a video when I get a chance to test them.
Not a problem. Setting your shutter speed to 1/125 will still freeze the action as the flash duration will be something like 1/5000 of a second or less and that’s what counts.
Correct, it’s the 24-105L lens & Canon 40D
love the video. just got my wireless triggers in mail today and couldn’t wait to try it. I think jarvvill is right on the lens, I’m using a sigma 18-50 2.8 and had to set it so close my lens kept getting water specks, I added a 1.4 converter, backed up alittle and it worked great. I hope this helps everyone
Great stuff.
very nice cheap way for the droplets photos, sadly my wireless trigger only syncs to 1/125
I think he’s using Canon’s EF 24-105mm f/4L lens mounted on a EOS 40D or 50D body.
great tutorial
go watch some of my photos at flickr with the nick of rassek
Lens and Camera?
perfect
wow thank you very very VERY much!!
great tutorial. thanks!
awsome video! i wanna try this too! i am now subscribing to you! cant wait to see more!
thanks so much u r a top geezer, pls make some more
would it not be easier to use the new pocket wizards on high speed sync and use something like 1/2000th of a sec with TTL flash
What kind of Lens is that you got there??
very nice n very informative video….love it…thanks
Is it necessary to use a fast shutter speed for this?
Your videos rock. This helped a ton!