Did these with a blue bucket of water.

Credits to Elaine, My dear, who helped me with the droppings of the droplets while i prepare myself pressing on the shutter.

Comments and critiques are welcome.

Tools used

Blue Bucket
Brolly with 430EX
580EXII mounted as master
canon 350D
Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 LD Macro 1:2

Here they are.

you took those at 180mm focal length?

yes... poor man's lens... coz the tamron's macro only works when it's 180mm.

I got no macro lens....

well you'll get your lens wet if you're using a macro lens anyway I have the same lens but I hardly use the macro feature. 180mm is waaay tooo long

This is actually my first time using the macro feature.. LoL...

Tamron SP90 will get wet, but not the other siggy macro lens. The siggy macro lens, still can get 1:1 at some distance, which was told by radical himselves..

I need a remote cord... sometimes i dun get clear shots because of the shake i cause to the cam while pressing the shutter. ><

maybe u can try using Self-Timer, just the problem is to get the correct timing to drop water. something sometime the shake is also cause by the mirror flip.

This post has been edited by sooyewguan: Mar 25 2008, 01:27 PM

self timer cannot.... tried... to hard to for timing.. the water drop is done by my gf's finger.. not from a machine or something...

controlling the shutter manually is better.. i can easily do the timing for it.. the hardest part is the droplet's positioning.. >< and the pre focus... i dunno la.. maybe it's the lense... it's strange for aperture f11 and taken with f13 everything should be crispy clear... but some of my pics.. only the droplets are clear.. the bottom is not that clear...

I tested shooting my gf's finger with the same settings... it's damn clear... Strange huh?

why didnt use your 50mm+closeup filter?

coz it's too close.. 50mm with +4 filter maximum can go around 15-25cm away only...

I like the 1st photo. nice work man.

Thanks.. but i still think it can be better. comparing to those pro ones... posting it up here, to get some opinions from sifus on how to improve it.

nice water droplet, will want to try it one day

if more light focusing on the water droplets then its much more nicer,can white torch light....haha