This is a fast and straightforward tip on one thing you’ll be able to check out in your kitchen with a macro lens.

Yesterday, whereas I used to be doing the dishes, the water jet hit an egg cup and bounced again in a concentrated jet, splashing water throughout me. We have all been there and all of us hate it when it occurs. However this time, the macro images fanatic in me seen that the construction of the spray splashing from the egg cup was really fairly attention-grabbing!

So I introduced out my Sony A7III digital camera, my Godox TT685 exterior flash, and my trusty Laowa 60mm macro lens, and started to detonate photos of it. And to my shock, the outcomes seemed fairly cool.

What it’s best to ideally do is place the flash behind the water jet, however indirectly behind it – extra barely at an angle in order that the flash doesn’t shine immediately into your lens. You must have some kind of diffuser in your flash for finest outcomes – I used a plastic gentle dome that I purchased from a ironmongery store. See the video for extra particulars. However you too can simply level the flash at a white floor close to the sink, like white tiles, or perhaps the underside of your cupboard is white? This can give an excellent diffusion.

Set the flash to an depth of 1/16 to 1/32, your digital camera to ISO 100, the aperture to f / 8 or f / 11, and a shutter pace of round 1/60 s. The shutter pace doesn’t matter, because the flash is extraordinarily quick (at a magnitude of 1 / 10,000s) and can take many of the gentle throughout publicity anyway.

Lean gently and slowly in order that you do not get water in your lens, and destroy with the digital camera as soon as the water drops are in focus. Use focus or focus magnification, or simply take check images till you see them in focus. You must get some attention-grabbing images just like those I obtained.

To get a extra unique background, and higher separation of the topic, I attempted putting a black t-shirt alongside the facet of the sink behind the water spray.

Strive a lot of completely different angles between the flash, digital camera, and splashing water, and check out letting the water splash towards various things – perhaps an egg cup, a spoon, or one thing else? I experimented for about 45 minutes to get the pics on this publish, if you happen to spend extra time you would possibly get even cooler outcomes.

Concerning the Creator

Micael Widell is a full time Macro Photographer and YouTuber primarily based in Stockholm, Sweden. Discover his work on Youtube or to mwroll.com. You can even discover it as @mwroll on Instagram and 500 px.