the milk project

i remembered when a fellow designer asked me on how to capture a splash or a liquid droplets using the camera. i really don't know how to do it. instead of researching it, i tried to experiment. i think it's more interesting rather than knowing the tutorial then following it.

first, i took a white bowl and poured water on it slowly. it didn't work because of the transparency of water don't have the desired effect. aside from that, it's evening and i don't have an adequate lighting.

i was supposed to suspend this trial and error thing when i tried using a flourescent desk lamp near the bowl. that helped but not enough. i tried using flash but it burns the image even i redirect/suppress the lighting.

since it was an experiment, it's ok that i adjusted my iso settings to 1600 and lower my aperture to 4. higher iso settings means more "noise" (pixelated) on the image. i needed light and that compensates the dilemma a little bit. all we need is a faster shutter speed to capture drops. although underexposed (due to inefficient lighting), i just set the shutter to 1/500 - 1/640 of a sec.

the hard part i encountered in this experiment was the timing. i couldn't do the shooting while squeezing the "drops" at the same time and so i asked my roomie to do the bombardment. i tried the burst mode but once again, the problem with the light makes the quality worse. instead, i use the single shot mode and go n-sync with the bombardier. everytime he said piga (squeeze), i snapped.

it took me more than 200+ shots and i got less than 10 good to retain.


shutter speed: 1/640 sec, aperture: f/4, iso: 1600, focal length: 27mm, manual setting

this was fun and drank the milk afterwards. i'll try this once again on a bright daylight.