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23-FEB-2007 jvkelley

Water Drop

This was lit with the built-in flash on the XTi. I got the black background by taking the picture in front of a open window at night time.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
1/200s f/9.0 at 47.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time23-Feb-2007 01:23:27
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length47 mm
Exposure Time1/200 sec
Aperturef/9
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programprogram (1)
Focus Distance

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ctfchallenge09-May-2008 21:01
Good one. And thanks for the explanation. I suspect we'll be seeing more stop-action shots with dark backgrounds.
--Mary Anne
ctfchallenge09-May-2008 14:15
Thanks Cat. One thing about flash is that shutter speed doesn't matter. The burst of light is in the 1/10000th to 1/1000th range so anything lit with the flash will be frozen. If you mix flash with ambient light, the shutter speed only effects the exposure of the stuff lit with ambient. - J.V.
Guest 09-May-2008 14:03
Nice! and well done! I am surprised that you are able to freeze this at 1/200th. I would have expected it to need faster shutter speed.
-Cat
ctfchallenge09-May-2008 13:31
Thanks you three. Julie, the water was in a glass bowl filled up all the way. All the splashing made a big mess. - J.V.
Rod 09-May-2008 10:45
It's funny I can look at lots of sunset picys & lots of flower picys but these water drop picys have no interest once you've seen one. I must admit that the B&W & black background makes this one good enough to look at a. Well done JV.
Julie Bird09-May-2008 09:04
This is great jv. What did you use to contain the water, so as not to make it visible? Julie
ctfchallenge09-May-2008 05:28
Nice one JV- Debi