Berry takes a Dive #2
close up of strawberry dive bombing into a glass of water from a really really tall height…. :-)
Thank you everyone for your kind comments with regards to these 3 images. I have been requested to supply so more technical information on how I took these….
Tall vase about half filled with water.
Lighting – just the unshaded Aussie direct sunlight (no reflectors)
Good sturdy tripod.
Cable Remote shutter release.
Set the manual focus with the berry floating on the surface of the water.
Then just drop the berry into the water (from about head height) and try to sync pressing the remote button, having the camera on Continuous Shooting seemed to help…....
Camera Model Name
Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Shooting Date/Time
15/03/2008 13:34:26
Tv(Shutter Speed)
1/4000Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F5.6
Metering Modes
Evaluative metering
Exposure Compensation
+2
ISO Speed
400
Lens
EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Focal Length
54.0 mm
Image size
3888×2592
Image Quality
RAW
Flash
Off
White Balance
Auto
AF mode
Manual (MF)
Picture Style
Standard
Parameters
Tone Curve : Standard
Sharpness level : -
Pattern Sharpness : -
Contrast : 0
Sharpness : 3
Color saturation : 0
Color tone : 0
Highlight tone priority : -
Color matrix
-
Color Space
sRGB
File Size
8446 KB
Dust Delete Data
No
Drive Mode
Continuous Shooting
Berry takes a Dive #2 belongs to the following groups:
Berries, Fruits & Seeds - 3/day and Cee's Fun Artsy Friends (no holidays cards or snapshots please) Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints
Victoria Smith
Great idea! This turned out very well.
Basia McAuley
Very cool.
Janine Hewlett
Gr8 shot!
Wendy Slee
absolutely wow!
LaFleureRouge
What lovely and creative idea. Well done.Bravo!
Jen Whyte
WOW!
PigleT
Yum ;)
Margot Kiesskalt
Great work!
Peter Marin
Nice and clear shot of the entry. Would be worthwhile shooting it with a white background to help pop the strawberry with some reflected light…......you’d sell a million (-;
longlegs
wow, this is great too ..
Wayne Holman
This is so cool, well done Gerry…
Heloisa Castro
Nice one!
shall
Love these shots.. this is a great one.. x
Julie Just
Great work! Thanks also for the technical info on the shot setup :D
Mohammad Khaksar
great idea! great work!
well done dude,bravo…!
Franmacimages
Very clever Gerry well worth all the effort its a fav for me mate Horrendous fires out your way Sad story All well here Ta for comments Regards Frank
Dennis Gay
G’day Gerry,
Very well thought out high speed photograph mate!
I am fascinated by the shape and pattern of the vortex and the great exposure you achieved.
Nice and sharp and pleasantly colourful with good contrast.
Great work that man!
GB
Dennis
Deidre Cripwell
How many tries before you got this fantastic one?
GerryMac replied
Hi Deidre, actually these ones of the berries weren’t too bad once I figured out the manual settings! I also had the multi shoot mode on as well!
MondoStef
That’s it – I gotta try something like this
Joel Haldane
Brilliant idea and shot.
PNFdeb
very cool – nice work
EvaMcDermott
Excellent idea!
dolpharius
very brilliant shot , kind of you 4 the info. cheers – sally.
Steven Sandner
Lovely shot, great framing! absolutely love the details!!!
roybarry
Phenomenal work, superb timing.
Caroline Gorka
excellent !
Apostle
Your whole portfolio is great but I luv all things strawberry and these shots are very beautiful and unique.
Thomas Sielaff
Very clever! The detail of the water is quite good. A must in the larger view.
LoveMy7Cs
Fabulous!!
mklau
Just WOW! A fantastic shot captured me when touring your portfolio
Paulette x
Superb shot – really impacts on the senses.
MaryHelen
Fantastic shot! Beautiful water movement
Steve Chapple
Sensational outcome. I’ve been wanting to try this and now you given me all the info I need, (same camera) so thanks so much!!!
Sensiworld
Great capture !
SueAnne
I love these kind of shots, they are so creative and really take some skill to get everything just right. Bravo you did a great job. ” I can even see a little water that is sitting out side on the bottom left corner of the glass or bowl you used” I keep wanting to wipe it off… LOL
Arrowman
Brilliant idea I tried a similar thing with a hosepipe ! – Colin
GerryMac replied
cheers Colin! have you posted it up on RB? would love to see it….
Arrowman
Gerry, yes its on my first page of art – Colin
mikebov
Excellent & clever image
Charlie08
Very very cool!
daniel-luke
thats crazy! great idea! i gotta try one of these!!!
riverotter
Cool … awesome capture!
GerryMac replied
thanks Emily! :)
Wayne Pearson
This is brilliant Gerry
GerryMac replied
cheers Wayne! :)
wildrider58
Superb shot, very cool!
GerryMac replied
thank you so much and for the fav mick! :)
Ralph Olsson
See i missed all these. mate, this is awesome. I so wish i could do something like this…alas, not in my photographic gene pool:( Anyway, brilliant job and certainly a fave for me mate:)
GerryMac replied
I had fun with these Ralph there are a couple more in there somewhere! lol! that’s the trouble with putting up so many! I must admit I have rearrange the order a bit and brought so oldies up to the front for a while…. I also set up my RB website over the weekend, love the configuration and with the background being black makes the images stand out really well, have you looked into it yet? and thanks so much for the fav! :)
Ralph Olsson
Same here…i redid mine to the black! Looks better. It’s good to get the older nes back up front again, allows others who may not have caught them – such as me!!! get a look:)
Nigel Donald
Nicely captured
GerryMac replied
cheers Nigel!
Steven Holmes
Great work, wonderfully captured
Evita
♥ Excellent !! :D ♥
Cee Neuner
Awesome!!