Shooting Water Drops

[Fishbait]

At the request of John, I am starting this thread to share some photographs he thinks will be of interest to forum members.

The images are of water drops being shot with a .22 cal pellet pistol.

To envision the target, you can see a video of a water drop at:

http://youtu.be/Yi3LW5riHfc

This is a slow motion video. The actual drop event lasts only a few thousandths of a second and is moving. The target is roughly the diameter of a .22 cal pellet.

My images are close up pictures of a .22 cal pellet hitting the water drop at the top of it's rise.

If I get some response to this thread I will post the images and describe the technique.

A sample can be seen here:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0021.jpg?t=1277839669

[Fisherman777]

Wow! That is somethin'! Any more examples of your work?

[Fishbait]

Wow! That is somethin'! Any more examples of your work?Well, when I planned this project I was hoping for at least one good shot. I don't mean to be immodest but I now have a couple hundred hits. I now delete most of the hits unless they are really extrordinary.

I tried posting the images to the forum but I must be doing it wrong. All I could do is insert a link.

When I click on 'Insert Image' I get a script prompt. How do I post the actual image?

[Fishbait]

Here's the latest image with improved lighting:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0037.jpg?t=1277898067

[Hawkmoon]

Point of interest:

I'm old enough to have been a kid back when Walt Disney was alive and hosted his own television show. In addition to showing cartoons, he would also provide background. On one of the shows, he went into a detailed explanation of how the artists drew the animated cartoon rain drop splashes in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. They started out with slow motion filming of actual water drops, just like the Youtube video.

However, Disney's artists didn't think the cartoon rendition looked particularly good. So they experimented, and what they discovered was that if they did it with milk rather than water, the resulting pattern was much more crown-like and looked more like a rain drop splash "should" look. So they used slo-mo images of milk drops as the basis for the animated rain drop splashes in the cartoon.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.

[Fishbait]

Point of interest:

I'm old enough to have been a kid back when Walt Disney was alive and hosted his own television show. In addition to showing cartoons, he would also provide background. On one of the shows, he went into a detailed explanation of how the artists drew the animated cartoon rain drop splashes in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. They started out with slow motion filming of actual water drops, just like the Youtube video.

However, Disney's artists didn't think the cartoon rendition looked particularly good. So they experimented, and what they discovered was that if they did it with milk rather than water, the resulting pattern was much more crown-like and looked more like a rain drop splash "should" look. So they used slo-mo images of milk drops as the basis for the animated rain drop splashes in the cartoon.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.I use milk quite often for drop photos. Here is one with a second drop colliding on top of the first. Colored dye was added to the milk:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/fishbait/DSC_0360.jpg?t=1277908622