Fishy

So i went a little further with this one; I had a (DIY) mini tank for the setup. Its very narrow (about 10 cm wide), and I had a flashgun pointing diagonally up from the left bottom corner, and with the help of some aluminium foil on the right. The background was a piece of white paper, was intended to produce overexposed background (by tilting it to reflect sunlight), but miscalculated the aperture value and probably the cloud, and thus this image. Exaggerated the darkness of the back, and added alot of vignetting effect.

Its alright, but not there yet. This particular picture was very hard to work with; The water was very dirty, and too many things flying around in the water that I needed to fix on photoshop. Next thing i'll need is a proper backdrop, and a sponge filter..

Old shot: Water drop

A while ago I tried catching images of crown of water drop.. by luck. Well it worked, but i had to capture many shots before i can actually get a good one. So i decided to build an electronic sensor to sense the water droplet and trigger my xti. The sensor worked pretty well, and I was able to capture nice shots. Oh, one more thing, a cool feature I had on the sensor was the flexibility to determine the amount of delay between the moment it detects water droplet, and the moment it triggers the camera. Someday i should build one for capturing bullet too.

Here's before the sensor, using luck. This is probably the best among the first 100 shots. I was using halogen for the lighting on this..



Here's after the sensor: i was actually able to capture different moments of the drop sequence.


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November berries

Was walking around my apartment complex the other day and caught sight of these berries..