Thanks, George, for the in-depth, thoughtful & thought-provoking comment on my image on the Gallery.





Oh!





I've just read the second one!





Hilarious.
Love 'em!




Best regards,

Simple & Nice.

Could I ask you, George, to cast your overbearing,irascible, opinionated,
conciliatory, humble, diplomatic eye over my image on the Gallery & lay down your judgement.

For posterity, you understand.

Thankyou,

Roger.


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Thanks, Juraj.

At manual L, duration of 1/30,000th. then!
I would have thought that would stop even the fastest droplet....?

Roger.

Shame about the censored sig., I rather enjoyed that!

(Sorry, George )

Roger.

Why not, then, George, go the whole hog & name names?

It would relieve those not on your hit-list & reduce the quantity & increase the quality at a stroke.
Shame is, though, that some members/posters may feel even more hurt than they do already....


Roger.

Thanks, Juraj, but the Pentax AF240Ft is the most powerful gun I have. No Metz, I'm afraid.
But hey, Christmas is coming.......
(Sorry about that!)

Roger.

Thanks, Alan.

Flash was the only illumination, there being the vestiges of daylight from the window, but it wasn't the sunniest evening ever!
I would not have thought the ambient light would have registered at iso200,1/180th at f16...?

I thought about this quite a lot & I think it's a combination of lack of d-o-f, slightly missing full focus & sometimes the flash simply being not short/quick enough.
The last image seems to show a fast enough speed, at the left, to freeze the droplets but the central/front ones have come out of the d-o-f.

The "worst" one looks to be no3, where, I think, the droplets are simply travelling too quickly to be stopped by the, presumably, high flash speed
which has been sufficient for the sphere & column ones which, generally are as sharp as a sharp thing, particularly, no.2 in the second set.

Thanks, all, for looking & the interest shown,

Roger.

P.S., does anyone know if the flash duration is get-at-able from anywhere?

A few more, last for this evening!
























Thankyou & goodnight!

Roger.

Thanks for the feedback, all.

I think that any softness in the first three may be the size of the droplets showing-up shortcomings in focusing, with the crop size coming into play as well.
It's possible, also, that with the "corona" shots, depth of field is insufficient to hold the whole structure in focus.

The shutter speed is irrelevant in these images. It's the speed (brevity) of the flash that's the deciding factor.

Next batch, I'll try a closer flash/subject distance to decrease the duration of the exposure, which may enable a smaller aperture (more d-o-f).

Again, thanks for the comments.

Roger.

In PSE9, I go to:

Select: all.
Edit: Stroke (outline) selection.
Inside.

What to do with:
Blending?
Opacity?
Preserve transparency?

Perhaps give the PSE8 version a try.
Thanks, Mat.

Roger.