Been having a play with some drip photography today, trying to follow the instructions from a magazine article. Now I knew it wouldn't be easy but wow it's hard to get the timing right! More off target than on it. To start with the settings they recommended just gave me a black image, thought I'd be clever and fire my off-camera flash from the built-in flash on the 77D in Easy Wireless mode. Whilst I thought the flash was firing, now I'm not so sure. Fiddled around for ages trying to get something and then once I had I was up against the clock because I suspect the safety pin I used to make the hole in the bag of water was actually too thick and it achieved more of a constant dribble than a drip and so my already 2/3rds full tray started to fill up somewhat rapidly! Ended up having to bail it out into an old washing up bowl because I thought there's no way I'm going to be able to carry that into the bathroom without spilling it everywhere!
In the end, using just the built-in flash, I bagged a few good ones, or what I think are good ones anyway, where you can actually see the drips rather than just the left over ripples of water ;-) No wonder companies make and sell drip controllers - you definitely need to find the right momentum which is not what you are actually seeing but the space/time in between, because by the time you've seen it, the camera is too late. Camera club acquired a drip controller just before we went into Lockdown so we've not had a chance to try it out, gotta be easier than by hand that's for sure! Ages ago we did some splash photography, throwing water at a wine glass and trying to capture the water movement with off-camera flash. Even that is very much based on timing and again you end up with more rejects than keepers! Whiles away a Sunday afternoon though :-)
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