Drops

The last few days have been hard on me, so I'm taking advantage of the little time I now have for myself trying to do something useful. Well, not quite useful - pleasurable will do just fine! Of course, music and photography still ocuppy the largest part of it, so that's where I'll mostly focus on.

Yesterday I spent about two hours trying to capture a single photo - of something I always loved to see, and an art that truly fascinantes me. Water drops photography. If you google it, you'll find dozens of wonderful macro shots, beautifully captured. But it's quite hard, requires a LOT of patience, and a good equipment is necessary. But I dont have good equipment and I wouldn't settle for a "no".

Oh if only you could see the mess I did... I've created a system out of hanging bottles with strings that continuously keep dripping at a certain ratio - at the same spot. That would leave my hands free to the real capture. Buuuuut unfortunately, it took me almost 200 shots and two battery packs to capture a few good ones. But as it got dark, I ran out of light, and I lost all the contrast in my pictures.

Which means, a LOT of noise. But I'll share my first one! I was really excited when I got it, it was really hard. The general flash speed isn't enough to freeze the action, so it was a pretty good excuse for the fully manual mode.



The depth of field is really really thin with a macro lens, and with drops smaller than 0,5cm, it can take a lot of patience, believe me. But I enjoyed the result, altough amateur, and Im looking forward to more experiencies with this. It was fun to create the colorful background, but next time I'll try to add some ink to the water and use milk drops for extra texture.

I was going to post more of the Air Race photos, but I'll leave that to another day.