Tony Newell : Photographer in training

Macro course week #2

More playing with liquids and food colouring this week. This one was a bit hit-and-miss.

Water drops

The set up was a camera on a tripod with a Speedlite flash set on “multi” or “strobe” setting. Camera was ISO 100, 125th second, and f/16. Shutter was set to continuous shoot. My camera only manages 3 frames per second, and doesn’t have a very big buffer before it has to write to the memory card.

Water drops crown

The liquid was milk with food colouring in it. Drips were allowed to fall by turning a tap on some glass equipment that looked liked it came out of a school’s chemistry lab.

I took nearly 300 photos but still not satisfied with the results.

Shell

Later on a played around with a studio light and softbox to take some pictures of shells. I’ll try and get a bit more arty next week.

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