Any photographers in here?

[FunkyBuddha]

Question..I want to take pictures of water droplets. How do you go about it?

http://www.ooer.com/content/photos/photos/drops.jpg

 

[ChopstickHero]

Question..I want to take pictures of water droplets. How do you go about it?

http://www.ooer.com/content/photos/photos/drops.jpg

if you are trying to catch water droplets as they fall, you will need a very fast shutter speed, like 1/1000 second or something near there. every situation will be different because it depends on your lighting. make sure you adjust your aperture so that your DOF is not too narrow or else it will be hard to focus on the droplets themselves. a macro lens will work great in this situation as it has a magnifying feature. if you don't have a macro lens, then a zoom lens at at a long focal length will work as well.

 

[rjmhotrod]

Just as an example of catching water droplets, this pic was taken at 1/2000 sec, f3.2, 50mm, ISO 100.

 

[L8R]

http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2580522#post2580522

Simple shots

Peace

 

[KYLiquid]

an SLR is by far the best tool for getting pictures of water drops, this was auto mode on my d50, right out of the box (after the battery was charged)

 

[altspace]

All of these crazy thunderstorms in the US and no one is snaping pics? Well it woke me up an hour ago so I caught one. Mind you it's pitch dark outside.

 

[Breeegz]

no t-storms up here... I miss t-storms

 

[altspace]

One more shot that came out kinda neat.

 

[ChopstickHero]

nice shots.

too bad it hardly ever rains in SoCal ... i miss rain.

 

[L8R]

Dawm!!! Those shots are awesome dude.

 

[altspace]

You miss rain? I miss living in Redlands.

 

[FunkyBuddha]

How do you take photos of lighting storms? Do you guys just go out and shoot however many pictures and hope some show up in your photos?

 

[ChopstickHero]

You miss rain? I miss living in Redlands.

well, i grew up in Toronto so it rained alot there. I like the feeling after a huge shower. feels clean. it felt nice when i went up to San Fran for a week, it rained for a few days and i didn't mind at all.

 

[G-Papi]

lightning that I've done has been after dark using time exposure and ending it after a good strike. I could add more details later if I don't get beat to the punch.

 

[G-Papi]

go here
http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=time+exposure+lightning&page=1&offset=1&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D4014ee86e18c3f1f%26clickedItemRank%3D10%26userQuery%3Dtime%2Bexposure%2Blightning%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.cimms.ou.edu%252F%257Edoswell%252Fltgph.html%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPToolbarNS%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cimms.ou.edu%2F%7Edoswell%2Fltgph.html

 

[ChopstickHero]

go here

cool link, thanks for sharing that

 

[FunkyBuddha]

Another question...

How do I take a pic of an object and the focus is clear but the background/ambience is blurry?

I'm only using a point and shoot digicam here.

Papi- thanks for link!

 

[brightwhite]

Another question...

How do I take a pic of an object and the focus is clear but the background/ambience is blurry?

If your point and shoot allows you to adjust the aperture (F Stop), set it to as low a number as you can. The rule of thumb is, the higher the F Stop, the more depth of field (infinite focus) that you get. The lower the number, the more out of focus distant non-focused objects become.

HTH.

 

[ChopstickHero]

Another question...

How do I take a pic of an object and the focus is clear but the background/ambience is blurry?

I'm only using a point and shoot digicam here.

Papi- thanks for link!

start reading around post 310 in this thread: http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123627645&page=21

with a point and shoot, you will have to be really close to your subject. i find in Macro mode, you will get some background blur as your camera tries to focus on the nearest subject in your view.

The background blur or bokeh as it's known, is one of the best features of a DSLR. the narrow depth of field (DOF) is generated by setting a large aperture and long focal length. different lenses will have different smoothness of bokeh. here is one i took in Long Beach:

1/200 f/5.6 @ 55mm, 100 ISO, RAW

even though the aperture was f/5.6, the distance behind the subject was far away enough to create some blur. If i had a faster lens, the aperture could've been wider and the background blur would've been smoother.

So achieveing background blur is a combination of aperture, focal length and distance to subject/background.

 

[G-Papi]

If you do digital, and have Photoshop or another decent editing tool, you can do a blur - maybe not as extreme as the one in my attachment, but you can do it to change the appearance of depth of field.