Two more shots today to show off some of the beautiful shapes and patterns created simply by squeezing droplets of milk from a syringe .
You never know what you will get each time, whether it is a flying droplet, a sharp peak or a random ripple.
I chose these images today for the smooth textured shapes. The second shot looks rather like an inverted ceiling rose, I was amazed at the symmetry from something so random.
I love the first image too and apart from a random ripple I wonder what you can see. A bit like when you see shapes in clouds I think that when you look at images like this you can see different things. For example perhaps you can see a spoon, perhaps an eye or maybe a swaddled baby.
Here are the final few smoky blue images from last weekend's lockdown photo session.
I like all these images but the second is my favourite which I have actually rotated through 90 degrees.
I think that there is something of the northern lights about these although perhaps the colours are wrong for that.
I don't know about you but when I look at the third picture I can see the profile of a face
Two more smokey blue images.
The first of these images is cropped and rotated clockwise through 90 degrees and I think it works really well.
I still have a few more of these to share and will do so in the coming days although I may break things up with some splashes of spring colour from my garden, come back tomorrow to see what I pick...
Here are three more images from my smoking experiment.
As I said yesterday there is an element of chance when photographing things like water and smoke because you cannot easily control or predict what will happen. You just have to try and set the conditions as best you can and hope that with a bit of experimentation and a lot of patience you can get some decent images.
Yesterday's ribbons of smoke were fairly simple but after a little more practice I achieved these more intricate and really beautiful whorls and swirls.
These are the last few of my water droplet images for now, I will try some more another day.
For the colour in these shots I used Vimto in the first two switching to red food colouring in the last two. I wasn't sure how this would work out because the colour is so concentrated and as you can see it very quickly dispersed in the cold water.
I think they create some interesting effects.
So much good weather lately and so many missed opportunities to get out with my camera I haven't felt too motivated to post anything for a few days.
I thought today however that having finished work I would get creative and mess about with a few more of my water droplet images. I hope you like the results.
When a drop of water falls and hits the surface it happens so quickly and there is so much that the eye cannot see in that moment. I love the way that freezing the moment and making a few adjustments with highlights and shadows you can capture the texture of the water and in the second shot I love the bubbles or individual droplets that are forming within the spout extending from the top of the main element almost like extruding glass.
Two more water droplet shots
For the majority of the session I was using plain old water dropped from a syringe and with a few adjustments it creates a nice metallic effect.
Towards the end I switched things up and used a mystery substance to add some colour. I wasn't sure how it would work out because I thought it might just get diluted instantly but happily it didn't as you can see. I have a few more of these for tomorrow. If you want to know what the mystery substance was I will tell you tomorrow.
