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Getting a good water drop collision image (once you've sorted out the timing) is all down to the lighting and the colour filters. This image STILL hasn't got it right - but finally after several hundred shots - I actually know what to do next outing.



Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
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I think I would have liked it even better with a black background, but.....impressive stuff!

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I take pictures so quickly, my highschool was "Continuous High".

If you have a black background then you would also see virtually nothing of the splash - all the blue in the splash is from the background.



Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

Great shots Greg.
I don't know how you time them.
On a side note
Many years ago I saw a Russian made film camera capable of taking up to 1 million fps(if I remember well).
Of course there were 120 frames or so, and the timing was crucial. The camera was huge and when started sounded like a jet engine. The film was placed on the ege of a drum that was spinning at a crazy rate and the shutter was a rotating prism that spinned even faster. But people using it wasted huge lenghts of film until beeng able to capture an event, a plasma burst if I recall well.

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Thank you Radu - the timing's all done with a piece of kit called a Mumford Time Machine (comes from Bryan Mumford in California). Flashes are special ultra fast high power heads from http://www.highspeedflash.com/
Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/