Today I tried all different ways to photograph water dripping out of my kitchen faucet. I’ve been inspired by all the beautiful macro work showcased on Clickin Moms- and have carefully read directions on how to achieve this with a macro lens and speedlight (don’t have either…)- and then how to do it with the 70-300mm zoom- YAY! I have that! What I don’t have, I discovered, is a working tripod other than my gorillapod (I’ve been carefully storing my father’s ancient tripod since 1982 and then discovered today that it is broken). There is a lot of camera shake with the zoom, so a tripod helps. I discovered that I could wrap the gorilla pod around a kitchen chair, manually focus, and then click- many, many clicks! I still think that I never achieved proper focus- but I got better as the day wore on (and the light waned, alas). I tried to get cool color effects by placing a pillowcase behind the faucet; I need to find something brighter next time. I also tried using my kit lens at 55mm (handheld, with no pillowcase)- and I like that one better! I’m not thrilled with either photo- but- BIG SIGH- it is all a process . . .
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These are great shots. I am impressed. I assume the right photo is without the pillowcase. I like it better, too, I think because of whatever is making a dark vertical reflection. Very nice and excellent focus.
These are great! I am just dying to try out one of these shots! I found a great lesson on this I’m going to feature in a few weeks on my blog :O)
good job!
These look great!