Water Droplet with Tamron 90mm

chewhow · Dec 31, 2007

Hi,

This is my first attempt to capture water droplet. Did not have a really good result. Just notice I should used flash but I did not do that at the first trial.

Pic 1

Pic 2

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Pic 4

Brooks P · Dec 31, 2007

allowed on the forum, especial for something like Budweiser beer.

I think those are really good for your first effort.
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kenwilkes · Dec 31, 2007

First one is my favorite
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chewhow · Dec 31, 2007

Brooks P said:
allowed on the forum, especial for something like Budweiser beer.

I think those are really good for your first effort.
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http://bmiddleton.smugmug.com/

thanks Brooks. Sure a lot more room for improvement here

chewhow · Dec 31, 2007

kenwilkes said:
First one is my favorite
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenwilkes/

thanks for viewing kenwikes

naqqaf · Dec 31, 2007

very good stuff here...
I like what u did...
how low were u from the waters level??

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chewhow · Dec 31, 2007

naqqaf said:
very good stuff here...
I like what u did...
how low were u from the waters level??

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A.Z.

Some people dream of success..... While others wake up early and work
hard at it.....

if i remember correctly, i was at the water level or above. Those pics were cropped.

R Dunlop · Dec 31, 2007

Hi,

If you can get a flash 'off' camera and below the water it will illuminate up through the glass and droplets. A flash from the front loses the sparkle and depth. Helps to have a dark background as well so the water and glass are lit up. Cheers
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wizz · Jan 1, 2008

Are you manually timing the picture, or do you have a trigger device? Craig

chewhow · Jan 3, 2008

wizz said:
Are you manually timing the picture, or do you have a trigger device?
Craig

manual trigger using my eye

chewhow · Feb 7, 2008

2nd attempt

still, the image is not sharp enough. I used f/11 or f/16 some times. Shutter around 1/200 with flash. All pictures shown are cropped.

How to improve the DOP of the picture? f/11 is not good enough? should i go lower? or should I move the lens nearer to the droplet instead?
Pls advise. Thanks

Pic 5

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Pic 7

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Pic 9

Pic 10

Pic 11

binary_eye · Feb 7, 2008

chewhow said:
still, the image is not sharp enough. I used f/11 or f/16 some times.
Shutter around 1/200 with flash. All pictures shown are cropped.
How to improve the DOP of the picture? f/11 is not good enough?
should i go lower? or should I move the lens nearer to the droplet
instead?

Wow. These are much better (not that the first were particularly bad). They look pretty sharp to me, especially #8 through #11. I really like #11.

I wouldn't stop down any further than f/11, as you'll start losing sharpness because of diffraction.

chewhow · Feb 8, 2008

I am using Tamron 90mm. May be you are right. I would try f/5.6 or f/8 next time. According to one of the lens evaluation, the sharpest point happened at f/5.6.

http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/Canon EOS Lens Tests/282-tamron-af-90mm-f28-di-sp-macro-test-report--review?start=1

hc4n4 · Feb 8, 2008

chewhow said:
2nd attempt
still, the image is not sharp enough. I used f/11 or f/16 some times.
Shutter around 1/200 with flash. All pictures shown are cropped.
How to improve the DOP of the picture? f/11 is not good enough?
should i go lower? or should I move the lens nearer to the droplet
instead?
Pls advise. Thanks

They look sharp, nice work, but you may find it not sharp enough in full size.

When I was researching sigma 70-300 I found a tread showing sharp pictures of water droplet and the poster also showed the set up that may be useful for you. follow the link below if you are interested.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1034&message=26266268

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keemra · Feb 9, 2008

Your second attempt is much better than your first ones. I have done some work with water drops too and have found the biggest challenge is shallow DOF. I know defraction kicks in at around f/11, but I got the best results at around f/16 with my Sigma 105 lens. It is better to have a bit of defraction than to have the drop outside of the DOF range.
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chosen1 · Feb 9, 2008

great job, you hit it off with the first picture.
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chewhow · Feb 9, 2008

thanks for sharing with me that link Rafy Sugiri.
chosen1 and Joanna, thanks for the comments....

The Fisherman · Feb 9, 2008

If you want examples of who I consider the best at water drops. go to Irene Muller's web page and look at her work, it will blow you away and keep you busy for years trying to come close to what she can do. She uses her Nikon D70 / Nikkor 60mm macro lens/ SB800 / slave flash at F16/500th sec. Here is her link, enjoy.
http://www.pbase.com/daria90
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It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera.

http://www.cockburnphotography.com/
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/gallery.asp?mem=85376

chewhow · Feb 9, 2008

Hi Fisherman,

Yap, she is great. How could she get such a sharp image? Most of the pic remain at f/16 and 1/500 shutter speed. The viscosity of the liquid did help to shape the sculpture

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