{"id":239,"date":"2011-06-14T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:21:22","slug":"photographing-waterdrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Waterdrops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I read <a title=\"How to photograph water drops\" href=\"http:\/\/improvephotography.com\/1075\/water-drop-photography-tips-how-to\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> on how to photograph waterdrops. It looked awesome so I thought I&#8217;d have a go to see what I could come up with along those lines.<\/p>\n<p>First, the technical issues: Waterdrops needed to fall from some height into a receptacle, ideally evenly spaced. Experiments involved hanging plastic bags from ladders, using different receptacles, changing the lighting, the background and the lenses&#8230; and making a mess &#8212; inevitable where water gets splashed around deliberately. Eventually I settled on a whisky glass (because it&#8217;s pretty) set in front of an (out-of-focus) batik napkin.<\/p>\n<p>Literally hundreds of shots later, including variations on how full the glass should be and which lens to use, some of the best pictures are shown below. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-239 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=241'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Waterdrop-003.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=242'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Waterdrop-002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=243'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Waterdrop-001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=240'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Waterdrop-004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I read this post on how to photograph waterdrops. It looked awesome so I thought I&#8217;d have a go to see what I could come up with along those lines. First, the technical issues: Waterdrops needed to fall from some height into a receptacle, ideally evenly spaced. Experiments involved hanging plastic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photographing Waterdrops<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}