Water drop photography

• 13 November 2012
• photography,
• cutsquash

After seeing many amazing water drop photos all around the internet I tried out some quick attempts at droplet collision photos. Armed with a cheap speedlite, a tray of water, and a syringe it was actually fairly easy to get some decent splashes. It still takes a lot of lucky timing, and many failed attempts, so building an arduino controlled water dropper sounds like a pretty fun project and evidently leads to some amazing pictures. There's also an amazingly large difference between milk and water at these scales, but the shapes both make are incredible.

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