Water Splashes!

mehfesto2

Free from college for a few months, I decided to try something new.
I started yesterday, but without a dropper, the results were less than impressive.
So here's my 2nd attempt.









Click here to see them all!

And here's my student set-up:
Hap-hazard, but does the job!


Shutter was remotely released withg one hand and dropped aimed and squeezed with the other! :pac:

superflyninja

To be honest I like the last photo best!!!!!

whyulittle

Messy.

mehfesto2

Haha!
Thought some people would. I was ggoing for a Francis Bacon thing, there... :pac::pac::pac::D

Nisio

is that a disposible razor in the middle of your equipment?

mehfesto2

Ehhh... yes.
Well, see last night I had no way of dropping the food colouring onto the bowl, so I noticed one of the razors had a hole in the middle, so I filled that up and tilted it. Didn't work.

Then I used an ice-cream wrapper. I cut a teeny-bit out of the bottom and gfilled that up and used that to drop.

Then I bought a dropper in Tescos this morning.


...Did I mention Im a student?:pac:

Nisio

That last picture looked like the mother of all shaving cuts for a moment!

jen_23

They are really cool!
Been thinking about doing something like that myself but judging from the mess!!! :eek:

stick-dan

They are really nice images, Like what your trying to do here and the vibrant colours work really well.

Thoie

I'm glad I'm not the only one - I tried it a few months ago - spent about an hour taking pics, then 3 hours cleaning the kitchen Yours seemed to work better!

mehfesto2

Well you could do it without much mess Jen, but once you get into it you really don't stop to recap bottles (obvious, here). If you had somone helping you could do it without half the mess.

I need to build something that will drop the droplets automatically now, though... Y'know, to steady the aim and to know when to release the shutter. I smell a project coming on!

Thoie

mehfesto2 wrote: »

Well you could do it without much mess Jen,

He lies. It's impossible.

I need to build something that will drop the droplets automatically now, though... Y'know, to steady the aim and to know when to release the shutter. I smell a project coming on!

I considered rigging something up using two squirrels, a candle and a mirror, then tried getting my kitchen tap to drip. I finally found that a plastic cup with a pin hole in the bottom will drip, but the drips can be a bit erratic.

mehfesto2

A plastic cup, you say?

Now that's an option! Though I do want to release two drops within say a half second of each other, so I'd need something more controllable.

TWO CUPS, perhaps!

Thoie

Two cups, a squirrel and some blue-tak on a stick?


Edit - new thought
What would be really great is an IV of saline (without the needly bit, obviously). Or possibly some kind of siphon with a narrow neck tube.

vibe666

superflyninja wrote: »

To be honest I like the last photo best!!!!!

ditto, looks like a massacre at morph's house.

TheWealth

whyulittle wrote: »

Messy.

might of been messy but I'd say it was fun!