A fun evening had by all
I wasn’t there personally, but there were at least 4 different setups, with fluids of differing viscosity. We had milk, water, and even engine oil! Furthermore – and the horror of it still haunts me – somebody ruined a perfectly good cup of tea! The oil was interesting in that it provided some strange backdrops to provide a little more interest to the images.
Member Chris Andrews had the following to say:
What a great evening, whilst to begin with we all basically looked at each other wondering what on earth to do we quickly accepted there were no experts and the best thing to do was to just get stuck in. I think one thing you need to accept in this type of shooting is plenty of failed tries but when you get one right its is fantastic.
Overall it was a great fun hands on evening. I’ve been inspired to experiment further at home, just need to work out how to suspend the plastic bags appropriately!!
Here’s to the next few practical evenings.
Great results people, i’m half wishing I could have taken some of these myself.
Engine oil and milk??? 🙂
Here’s some more inspiration http://www.photigy.com/liquid/
However we had a good time with the beginners workshop group in the other room too.
Im so glad people had fun with this, and I do think it’s a shame the beginners missed out. We do have a couple of free spots in the programme towards the end of the Winter Season and I’d be more than happy to add another water droplet night!
What do people think?
NB an ideal stand to hang a bag of water from could be a spare tripod if you have one (stood over the bowl) or, if you know someone that makes jam, you could suspend the bag from a jam straining stand – just a couple of suggestions!
Fiona :o)
An alternate way would be to use your kitchen sink. I’ve tried this several times at home with varying results, but in general have got a handful of decent shots out several hundred clicks!
I forgot to mention that I have only tried with water from the tap!!!