My attempt At brian petersons strawberry falling into water

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Hey guys only had my 450D for 3 days now but heres a shot i got yesterday afternoon. I saw Brian Peterson video on youtube of dropping a strawberry into water and capturing the moment it spalshed into it, for this photo i used F8.0 at 1/4000th of a second.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/33463934@N08/3672306934/" title="Strawberry 2 by Jamess220191, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/3672306934_4923ec633a.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Strawberry 2" /></a>
 
Ok so i still cant get the photo to show, any help?
 
is it this?

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not enough of the strawberry on show to my mind but I know its difficult.
 
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:lol: you wait for help all day then three come along at once!
 
Excellent cheers guys!
 
Give it a try in your first post james. :thumbs:
 
I'd suggest that as you didn't get enough of the strawberry in the shot that you crop it down to just the splash.

Maybe on the next try you shoot in portrait mode to give you more chance of getting the strawberry in :)
 
smoothedit said:
:lol: you wait for help all day then three come along at once!
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I spent too much time looking for the one with a splash strawberry in it.....its not there

:lol:

Not everyone has blistering continuous shutter actuations, and, b****r me if it didn't take far more than 49 shots to get a nice splashed strawberry in middle frame, I was using flash anyway so that was that.
Get a decent background, preferably dark, thread the strawberry on to some black cotton, and dunk away...clickin ana dunkin till it happens.
Clone cotton in pp if it shows.
All that drop > click > fish it out > drop > click, is soul destroying

:D
 
The trick here is to use flash to freeze the motion, aperture to expose the subject and shutter speed to expose the background.

You can probably do this with on camera flash, if you're near enough.

Set the flash to full power, hold a strawberry where you want it to be in the image and adjust the aperture until the strawberry is correctly exposed. Then adjust the shutter speed from any long value down to about 1/250th to get the background correctly exposed. The exposure on the strawberry will hardly change.

That way you can control how light the strawberry is and how light the background is without waiting for the weather to change!
 
Sorry to hijack, but I was inspired by bP as well
60 attempts later

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That looks quite cool James. It's a shame you haven't got the whole strawberry in, but it depends on how much patience you have, or whether you were just after the splash.

I might just have to give that a go myself, my first problem will be finding the right shape strawberry in the garden!

edit: must remember to refresh the page more often! Those two look quite cool as well. Something to aim for now - thanks guys :(
 
Here's another couple :)
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That last one for me - the others lack the required crispness...
 
this looks fun, i might give it a go. that last one is the best for me too.
 
Some interesting shot, and I may have a go next week too.
 
What settings are used to get a shot like this? I'm trying my best to learn about photography all the time, so would be interesting for me to find out how shots like this are done. If I was to guess i would say with some fancy macro lens, but what about like shutter speed and f stop ?

Any help much appreciated.
 
It may seem fun, but it can be very frustating when you just miss it. One member took 49 goes. I have a fun shot but I`m buggered if I can find it.
 
My 1st attempt was too slow a shutter speed and single shots. f2.8 with very narrow dof, I would have been there till doomsday till I cracked it.
The last session was using a sheet of plexiglass under the bowl of water. Remote lead, fast continous shots, 70mm @ f5.6, manual focus, 5000th sec.
I agree the last was the sharpest.
Sometimes the best shots don't have the strawb right way landing either.
 
Just tried this using a watermelon...anyone got any tips for drying out dslr's:lol:
 
andrewc said:
Its a fun project. I had a go a while ago and this was the best I could manage - but took loads of shots! Using flash is a good idea.

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Lovely capture, how many attempts in order to get this shot?

I tried this a while ago, was blindingly unsucessful, sulked a bit then went out to shoot some ducks...

Found some inspiration again - thanks guys - might try it later on.
 
It`s laughable when you read "I took X amounts of goes to get it right".
 
classcams said:
It`s laughable when you read "I took X amounts of goes to get it right".
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Why is it laughable? Experimenting with little projects like this are a great learning tool and they are also good fun, this is one of the advantages of digital photography as you can see your results straight away and correct any errors you might have made.

We can do without snidy comments like this so please think before posting.
 
Funnily enough, my favourite shot when doing this was literally the first I took.

Classcams it's impossible for human reactions to time something like this, and predict the fall of the strawberry against the already uneven water surface, hence the multiple attempts.
 
foodpoison said:
Funnily enough, my favourite shot when doing this was literally the first I took.

Classcams it's impossible for human reactions to time something like this, and predict the fall of the strawberry against the already uneven water surface, hence the multiple attempts.
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Ain't that the truth, I have many pictures of a glass of water or a glass of splashing water with no sign of a strawberry. :lol:


Andy
 
foodpoison said:
Funnily enough, my favourite shot when doing this was literally the first I took.

Classcams it's impossible for human reactions to time something like this, and predict the fall of the strawberry against the already uneven water surface, hence the multiple attempts.
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Why is it the first shot is always the best? :D

Seriously, it happens to me a lot, I take a shot, think that's quite good I'll repeat it with different ideas to try and get it better/different and they are never the same as the first shot :bang:
 
Byker28i said:
Why is it the first shot is always the best? :D

Seriously, it happens to me a lot, I take a shot, think that's quite good I'll repeat it with different ideas to try and get it better/different and they are never the same as the first shot :bang:
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I gave it a go last night and my first shot had the strawberry hitting the water perfectly but the lighting was wrong. Could I do it again!!!:lol:

I tried with strawberries, raspberries, slices of lemon, it is a lot harder than you expect it to be!
 
Put all together I think I could have had a frame by frame shot of the strawberry falling through the air, and hitting the water, to sinking right to the bottom...

Drop strawberry, press remote... Somewhere after about 10 mins I found the height sweet spot where my reactions at pressing the trigger matched the position of the strawberry in the water I wanted :D
 
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