Virtual Art of High-speed water drop photography. A winter activity that I have enjoyed practising for several years alongside Nature and landscape photography. I am then always surprised by the possibilities and the results.
A setup I built myself in a small room in our house where I spend a lot of hours.
The preparation requires as much attention as arriving at a beautiful result. Mix water to viscosity then mix with acrylic paint in the desired amount and colour. Then set up and light the lighting or flash units. Using a controller and IR remote control, magnetic valves, flash units and camera are controlled. Drop height, drop size, amount of drops, speed and many more possibilities make it sometimes exceptionally exciting or disappointing if you take 600 photos during a session and none of them is the one you expected.
In short, patience, time, technical insight and a lot of doing.
I taught myself by reading a lot about it and trying it out.
In this photo, I used little dye so you achieve the glass effect, the red is another drop of dye.
When you have been photographing for more than 50 years, you can talk about a passion.
I grew up in the analogue era and grew into the digital age.
I travelled the world as a photographer and made many photography trips. My preference lies with Nature and Landscape Photography, but..
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