Water Drop Refractions

[NateS]

Had a go at some refractions this morning. Next time I think I'll try natural light and a tripod. I am still pretty happy with today's results though.

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5 You can see the craziness of the flash reflections in this shot

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8 Not a refraction, but water droplets nonetheless

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[wizzard0003]

Nice work, Nate...!

1 and 4 are my faves...! :smile:

 

[polseszczyk]

Stunning photography! Really like these kind of shots. Well done!

Samuel

 

[chettrick]

The flower in the water drop is cool, extension tubes?

 

[Nico C M]

Keep them coming Nate, they are all beauty´s
May I ask if you used sugar disolved water or other ?
Thank you for sharing
Nico

 

[NateS]

Thanks everybody. These have opened up a new challenge for me with lighting. It has been a long time since I have worked so hard to get decent shots. I am enjoying the experimenting though....snapped off over 800 shots this morning playing around with more refractions (and a few bugs )

Nico - I am using sugar water in a spray bottle. I might try to get some distilled water and use an eye dropper. In the back of my mind I would think a mineral-less distilled water would be clearer and give better reflections than tap water diluted with sugar. I may be wrong though and maybe there's no difference.

 

[NateS]

The flower in the water drop is cool, extension tubes?

Yeah, there are 56mm of tubes on a 180mm macro lens.

 

[Butlerkid]

Wonderful! #6 is my fav! Excellent combination of detail, composition and colors!

 

[RickW]

Very interesting shots. Different to be sure and quite effective.

wonder if you will be able to replicate that style using natural light. I would think that the flash makes it work, but I would love to hear (and see) what happens when you try it.

 

[NateS]

Very interesting shots. Different to be sure and quite effective.

wonder if you will be able to replicate that style using natural light. I would think that the flash makes it work, but I would love to hear (and see) what happens when you try it.

Played a bit this morning with natural light and couldn't get it to work great.....it does work, but wind and movement are absolute killers. I spent about 2 hours today shooting with flash and trying to figure out how to keep from getting harsh flash reflections in the drops. I found that if I can have the flash partially blocked by having a bit of foilage between the flash head and the water drop then my reflections of the flash are minimized or eliminated completely. I will post some results from today once I finish editing them but I seem to be getting better already so that's promising.

 

[mathjak107]

wow, these are great. now i have to learn to do that. just what i need ,something else to figure out.

 

[TheGreaterImage]

Very, very nice shots! Excellent work, great composition. Thank you for sharing.