{"id":1317,"date":"2009-04-18T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2009-04-18T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T16:43:17","slug":"water_drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Water drops"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\"Water<\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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\nI finally got around to scratching an itch and tried to photograph water drops. My setup was as follows:\n<\/p>\n

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  • set up the heavy-duty Manfrotto 3258 tripod with a Manfrotto 405 head on it<\/li>\n
  • put the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8 lens + Canon Extender EF 1.4x + Canon Extension tube EF-25II<\/li>\n
  • put a light stand next to the tripod with a Canon EX580II on manual flash. Set the zoom to 105mm, and the power to 1\/16 + 0.7<\/li>\n
  • attach Pocket Wizard Multimaxes to both flash and camera<\/li>\n
  • attach Canon timer remote controller TC-80N3<\/li>\n
  • set mirror lockup to enable:down with set<\/li>\n
  • turn live view on to 10x mag<\/li>\n
  • place a knife running across the dish where the water drop falls<\/li>\n
  • mess with both the zoom and focus to get the writing on the knife into sharp focus<\/li>\n
  • take picture — repeat ad infinitum (almost 200 pictures in total)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \nThe extension tube both magnifies the picture and allows the lens to get much closer to the object in question. But the trade off for that is a razor thin depth of field. With an f-stop of 16, only millimeters were in focus.\n<\/p>\n

    \nAlso, the timing of the shot is difficult. And I am limited to 320ms due to the high speed sync. Which makes one shot pictures like “coffee with a drop of milk” all the more impressive to view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I finally got around to scratching an itch and tried to photograph water drops. My setup was as follows: set up the heavy-duty Manfrotto 3258 tripod with a Manfrotto 405 head on it put the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8 lens + Canon Extender EF 1.4x + Canon Extension tube EF-25II put a light stand next to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}