If the weather is crap and you want to practice a bit of photography here is an idea for a winters day. You absolutely do not need a DSLR for this, I tried it with a Panasonic FZ20 about 2 years ago and the results were virtually the same (and it was safer as I could keep the camera further away!)
What you need:
1. A camera (preferably with a macro mode)
2. A tripod or something secure/solid you can place your camera on
3. Two glasses
4. Some water
5. A tray (the brighter the better)
6. Something large with a single colour to place in the background (I used a shoebox lid)
Set it up something like this:
1. Fill the main glass up to the very top, you will point your camera at this one. The other glass is just used as a supply of water.
2. Line the camera up so it's pointing at the water, focus on that area
3. Drip water with one hand (I used a pipette thing to keep things clean and tidy) and hit the shutter release on your camera with the other.
4. Done!
Mine were shot with a Nikon D50 and Nikon 50mm 1.8. Not a macro lens so I just had to crop the hell out of these...
If you're feeling really clever you can do things like putting objects in the background instead of a plain object, get it just right and the object reflects perfectly in the water droplets.
I haven't tried that much really yet but I wanted to check to see if it worked, it does (this is a droplet in mid-air with the shoebox in the first pic behind it)...
What you need:
1. A camera (preferably with a macro mode)
2. A tripod or something secure/solid you can place your camera on
3. Two glasses
4. Some water
5. A tray (the brighter the better)
6. Something large with a single colour to place in the background (I used a shoebox lid)
Set it up something like this:
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1. Fill the main glass up to the very top, you will point your camera at this one. The other glass is just used as a supply of water.
2. Line the camera up so it's pointing at the water, focus on that area
3. Drip water with one hand (I used a pipette thing to keep things clean and tidy) and hit the shutter release on your camera with the other.
4. Done!
Mine were shot with a Nikon D50 and Nikon 50mm 1.8. Not a macro lens so I just had to crop the hell out of these...
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If you're feeling really clever you can do things like putting objects in the background instead of a plain object, get it just right and the object reflects perfectly in the water droplets.
I haven't tried that much really yet but I wanted to check to see if it worked, it does (this is a droplet in mid-air with the shoebox in the first pic behind it)...
![244921693-M.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fchrisharrison.smugmug.com%2Fphotos%2F244921693-M.jpg&hash=c834b8a17b33f769a1c3ae7e529ccccb)
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