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It gets quite addicitive
It's been a real learning curve,
originally tried in good light with a single flash on high speed synch 1,000 second exposure, have now moved to a different approach,
Use the flash to control the exposure as it is far quicker than the camera shutter, so my set up is in a darkened/dim room I have a back flash through a sheet of plastic underlay, acts as a diffuser, and a side flash aimed at the droplet.
Flash are set to 1/32, shutter 1/250 and aperture F16.
Built a frame to hold syringe so that drops will land in exactly same place to ensure focus and dof.
Then its pot luck, seems like hundreds of shots to get a few really good ones. Am trying to get the collision shots but this is really difficult to manupulate the water flow to get the results.
Have seen some fantastic images on flickr from practioners like Corrie, who are now using electronic timers etc..
It is addictive,
Neil.
An interesting one from last night, just one more fracion of a second and it would have been a nice collision!!
Neil
I don't want to disappoint but the drop at the top has formed from the spike and is heading up not down.
Ash has writtten a good tutorial in the tutorials section HTH