How To Creatively Photograph Water Drops and Splashes

Posted on August 25, 2013 by ShutterBug

I show you How To Photograph Water Drops and Splashes using a Canon 60D DSLR camera using an off camera flash gun. The pictures taken at the end of the video…
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25 Responses to How To Creatively Photograph Water Drops and Splashes

  1. photographydavis says:
    August 25, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    This was very useful.. I gave it a go and my pics came out really well. Thank you very much I guess my only question is what power was your flash on ? thanks,

  2. Jaydyn Webb says:
    August 25, 2013 at 7:52 pm

    how would i take a good picture without a tripod for a cannon 550D?

  3. sanjserif121 says:
    August 25, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    Great video…. I’ll be sure to try this with my 650D. However my flash is the 430EXii, will this be ok?

  4. Rabi Ahmad says:
    August 25, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    1080p… Really?

  6. emson1988 says:
    August 25, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    I have made a tutorial on making a flash directional, look in my videos, you may be able to adapt this to shoot items in your room as you mentioned. let me know if it is any good for you 🙂

  7. emson1988 says:
    August 25, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    Sorry you felt that way.. I agree the sound is awful, unfortunately I was doing this in my kitchen which is too reverberant, to make matters worse I had to use my mobile phone as my professional audio gear was being borrowed. I couldnt take the video using my 60d either as I was using it in the video tutorial. I now have a 2nd camera for future videos, however while I was set up for this shot I wanted to make a quick tutorial on the fly..

  8. rupert shean says:
    August 25, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    yet another youtube tutorial with great content but again: way too long and horrible sound… most 10 min videos could easily be cut to 1-2 minutes. To uploaders, think about your audience, especially given this is about technology ! rant over

  9. WiegerSimonMovies says:
    August 25, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    I would just go to a totally dark room, shutter speed very low and “freeze” the image with a torch or something just turn it on and of very quick

  10. Kev Beardsley says:
    August 25, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    what a great tutorial nice and simple to follow, thanks for the upload. 🙂
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  11. Srijan Roy Choudhury says:
    August 26, 2013 at 12:03 am

    Thank you so much for sharing. I really loved it…it’s pretty simple and can be done without any out-of-the-world equipments as some tend to show on your tube…

  12. Jake Adams says:
    August 26, 2013 at 12:43 am

    Without flash you are force to open up the aperture so you lose the depth of field needed in macro work or slow down the shutter speed which will give you blurred images because the speed is too slow to stop the action…use a flash.

  13. LudusHD says:
    August 26, 2013 at 1:41 am

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  14. saksham2779 says:
    August 26, 2013 at 2:26 am

    hey can you make a video of shooting objects in a room. because a lot of times i have to pass time idle and as such the options of clicking something in my room would do wonders. 🙂
    really like your video. !!

  15. Healer421 says:
    August 26, 2013 at 2:44 am

    Thanks for the tutorial, really useful!

  16. emson1988 says:
    August 26, 2013 at 2:44 am

    Hi, I would imagine it would be possible, I haven’t tried it so I can’t guarantee it will work but what I suggest you try is replace the flash with some sort of spotlight lamp or powerful torch and you may have to then increase the ISO setting to use a faster shutter speed as the flash would ordinarily freeze the motion, not using a flash you will need a faster shutter speed so probably a wider aperture too. Give it a try, let me know how you get on, Jon

  17. mohammed ibrahim says:
    August 26, 2013 at 2:51 am

    for someone that has no flash, what can i do to achieve this nice shot on my 7D canon? 

  18. Saskia Johnson says:
    August 26, 2013 at 3:32 am

    This was really very useful! Thank you! Very nice shots too!

  19. pradeep deepu says:
    August 26, 2013 at 4:24 am

    dude…! it was really nice..! good shots.. even i tried it.. i dont have any external flash 🙁
    i couldn’t get any clear shots.. i kept my iso too large…. so sad i could have had an external flash and tripos and cable release dude..! anyway thanks…! nice explanation

  20. emson1988 says:
    August 26, 2013 at 4:32 am

    No Problem. I dont see why you can’t replace with a different light source but I have never tried it to be honest. I think the advantage of flash would be freezing the motion better without needing such high shutter speeds. The flash I used was completely the external flash on the table. It may have looked like it was coming from the camera because I was bouncing it off the white paper behind the water drop rather than infront 🙂

  21. emson1988 says:
    August 26, 2013 at 5:18 am

    Thanks for the compliment glad you liked the samples 🙂 I have only ever tried this with a flash, I would imagine the advantage of flash would be freezing the motion better than a continuous light source but I have seen videos on youtube where people have used continuous so if you get it right I’m sure you would have no problems. The only other adjustments I made were tweaking of exposure in RAW and saturation can be a nice one to play with too exaggerate the blues.have fun let me know how u go

  22. Quyen Do says:
    August 26, 2013 at 5:37 am

    Sorry, I figured out the setting after watching the video again. Can I replace the external flash with a different light source? And during the picture taking, the was flashes I saw come from the camera’s flash or the external flash on the table?

  23. Quyen Do says:
    August 26, 2013 at 6:15 am

    Hi! Can you be more specific on the camera settings (like anything else we need to adjust beside the white balance)? Such beautiful samples!~ I’m going to use this technique for my project in cinematography class! Thanks a bunch!!~ 🙂

  24. emson1988 says:
    August 26, 2013 at 6:25 am

    Not a problem Alan. Glad you found it useful 🙂 Are there any other areas of which you will find a tutorial useful? I need to make some more videos soon so if there is anything I might be able to help with let me know.

  25. Alan John says:
    August 26, 2013 at 7:03 am

    Thankyou John for taking the time to make this video to which
    I found very useful.
    Regards Alan.

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