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TIP
FOCUS
ACCURATELY
Pre-focus by holding your
subject at the point of impact
WAT E R S P L A S H
and using autofocus and
Live View, switching to
#6 Experiment with manual to lock
it off.
a water splash
A LOT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC on the back of a chair with pegs.
techniques require a fair amount I sourced a glass and some fruit,
of trial and error when striving initially starting with a couple of
for the best results, but Bernie strawberries but later deciding to
Condon found that taking the add a lemon for contrast. I started
time to study a new technique dropping the fruit into the glass
before attempting it provided and fired some test shots, but it
most beneficial. wasn’t until I learnt more about
“A few years ago, I studied lighting that I was able to achieve
a BTEC course in photography the desired results.
to help develop and improve “I positioned a softbox lighting
my skills. Part of the course kit, controlled with a wireless
focused on taking pictures of trigger and receiver kit, above
glass subjects with both white the glass. After a few test shots,
and black backgrounds. I found that even with a shutter
“After making the decision speed of 1/200sec, the fruit was
to revisit this technique again appearing blurred. After some
recently, I set up the shot in a research, I found that reducing
small space in my living room the flash power to 1/32 or 1/64
and formed the background by helped perfectly freeze the Above Water splash photography results in
hanging black plastic sheeting movement in the shot.” different patterns every time.
400
ISO
|
f/9
|
1/22sec
|
105mm
|
R
Canon
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