William

I use Macro lens. I have a 100mm Pentax Macro but sometimes I use it with a 1.7x Pentax TC, which on this particular image I did. But most of my images I just use it without the TC.

On these water droplets I have been experimenting a lot with settings, on this image I used f/32 with an off board flash at an angle. SS at 180 and ISO 200.

But it all depends, I could be shooting anything between f/11 to f/32, depending upon the angle and what I am aiming at. As mentioned its all at experimental stage.

If I have sometime today I am quite eager to continue with this and get some more shots, hopefully better ones

I have a few ideas to implement now . Can't wait for another chance to lock myself into the shed again

Thanks Paul, I will try different angles now that I seem to have nailed the lighting and I can have them the way I want .

Thanks Stefan,

These trials was more to concentrate on the lighting and the timing of the drops. Gosh.. there are so many variables, the size of the hole for the water to come out, the height, the lighting angle, reflections etc, this is definitely a bigger challenge than the smoke ones for me. Well, at least to get them precisely how I would like them anyway.
I am still a long way to get there but have enjoyed trying them so far .

With today's trials I nailed a few things that will allow me now to concentrate on other aspects .

Thank you for your thumbs up ,

Getting these little ones to behave so that I can snap some images s such a pain lol. I find easier to puff some smoke, but thought I should insist and get some drops done still.

After several hours managed to get some of these. Still a long way to go to get them to behave in a way I could get some decent shots but I feel I am making some progress .

Any ideas or comments to improve these ones are greatly welcome.

Thanks

Amin

Piotro, fantastic images, really love the way it all looks blurred around contrasting the sharpness of the planes
Great ones

Dan
this is one of the best colour illusion I have seen in fact . I love those sort of things.
Its amazing how the eye perceives things. Even after being told that the gree and blue are the same colour I know people who would swear by their feet that its not .
Can't wait to send this link to some of my friends . Thanks for sharing this

That's great Martin. That really is helpful in understanding the tehnical side of those images. I am sure lots of us will benefit immensely from that.
Thanks again

Martin, pretty nice shots, love the way it looks as if its posing for you .

Sorry can't help in identifying the bird but I was deeply interested in seeing the difference just choosing different settings it makes to an image. When I noticed that the shots were more or less of the same moment and spot I was keen on checking the EXIF, and this is really a brillian example for any learner/newbie/improver to grasp the fantastic effects of choosing different settings and get the result on the image.

I presume there was only the difference of around 40mm in focal length between the two images but its the rest of the EXIF that would be very interesting to dwell on and help some learners to see the effect one gets by manipulating the settings on the camera.

I know someone to whom I am going to point to this thread to help understand the cause and effect of changing the settings to manipulate the outcome.

Just a thought here please, would you mind just adding the EXIF on both the images, so that it would help the viewers when discussing about it. I personally can see the EXIF from my browser but I am not sure if all of them who would be interested in checking it would know how to do it. Being learners and improvers themselves this would be an added benefit.

Thanks for the images, hope someone identifies them. Would be nice to know what bird it is.

EDITED: ADDED REQUEST TO MARTIN TO ADD THE EXIF WITH THE IMAGES