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Wine glass splash with on camera flash?

  • 24-09-2010 4:55pm
    #1
    .Conor.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭


    Is it possible to shoot a wine glass splash with an on camera speedlite (canon 430EX ii)


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  • #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    It's possible to shoot it without any flash at all.

    It really just depends on what you want to do with light, and how you want to use the light from the flash.

    There's no reason why you can't use the speedlight.


  • #3
    Borderfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    You can just use the flash to illuminate the scene and it will freeze it


  • #4
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    You can certainly use the 430 ex. I think though, the issue is, how you will capture the photo at the exact instant that you want to. Are you dropping something into the wine, or knocking the glass over? To capture the exact instant, consider a setup along he following lines:

    - mount the camera on a tripod.
    - mount the flash on something solid.
    - set the wine glass up
    - focus manually
    - turn off all the ambient lights, so you are in COMPLETE darkness
    - set camera to B & open the shutter
    - make the splash happen
    - trigger the flash at the exact instant you want to capture (this is the hard part)
    - close the shutter
    - turn on the lights
    - chimp
    - try again

    The danger here is that you will end up spilling a lot of wine. Try ribena till you get it right!


    - Foxt


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