The beauty of water - frozen during a long exposure photographsteemCreated with Sketch.

in appreciator •  5 years ago  (edited)

I love photographing water, the sound it makes alone draws me to it and I find it super therapeutic.

I shot all these shots during a long exposure. I light them with a flashgun on a very low power. I do this to freeze the motion. If I used the lights on full power the light would bounce around and I'd end up with blurry shots.

I could shoot them at super fast shutter speeds but my maximum speed for my lighting set up is 1/160th of a second and that still produces a slight motion blur.
My usual set up is 1 x Yongnuo 560iv triggered wirelessly and a single A4 piece of rainbow card behind the running tap.
These are super fun as you really don't know what you're going to get until you end the exposure.

Sometimes I spray water onto glass or directly onto the card to give really cool droplet effects

Other times I'll use it as a base layer to a really long exposure...

The ones which come out looking like molten glass are my favourites...

I hope you liked these and as always any questions you may have please fire them my way...

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Superb pal, quite how this post has only attracted a low number of votes is baffling me....still trying to work this Steeem thing out....

I thought I'd cracked it as it were but it seems not after the performance of my last few. I shall carry on regardless :)

Stunning work,the fact it’s on its side really adds to the strangeness, enter the matrix :)

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