Thursday, 20 January 2011

Ink in water abstracts


A simple @home project that didn’t go as well as I had hoped mainly due to lack of a close enough focusing lens. 

Used food colours rather than ink but idea is the same. A nice large square vase fill with water lens against the glass start shooting rapid frame and drop some ink or dye or whatever in and capture the results.
Set up - Useing a sheet to diffuse the window light and a mirror at other side to bounce back some light.


The problems came from the fact I don’t have a lens with a close enough focus distance so I couldn’t have the lens against the glass. Also I was trying to over expose the image in camera to give a really white background which didn’t help the sharpness. Don’t know why I didn’t crank the ISO up a bit and then I could have gone with a smaller aperture and hopefully sharper images. I think I will be trying this one again and see if I can get better results.

Two sequential drops

A big squirt of red followed by some blue

Some nice lines shame about the sharpness

A Really nice pouring look again shame about the sharpness

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