Every once in a while I enjoy breaking out of the outdoor photography (ok, ok, and family photography) rut. In that vein, here are some water droplet photos that I made the other night. These depend on using the (very, very short) duration of a flash pulse to freeze a water droplet in mid-splash. The shutter speed on the camera isn’t all that high, but (assuming ambient light levels are low) all of the illumination comes from the flash. (Strobist tutorial here). Nature photographers use the same technique (often with several synchronized flashes) to freeze hummingbird wings.
Anyway, I am pleased with these images. I’ll have to break out my setup again one of these nights and experiment with more variables (strobiscopic flash? lower camera angle? a 2nd light?).
More images after the jump.
