Droplet Macro

One of the great things about Cambridge Camera Club is the Special Interest Groups, which meet outside of the regular club nights.  Amongst these is a monthly workshop of practical techniques, held on the first Wednesday of the month.  Sadly, due to work, Wednesdays aren't a good night for me to get to Cambridge, so this month's meeting was the first one I attended all season.  The theme this month was macro photography.  It was an opportunity to for those who had never tried taking macro shots to give it a go with borrowed equipment and for those with more experience to practice trickier techniques, such as focus stacking.

I had a try at shooting liquid droplets.  One of the other Paul's in the club had brought his table top droplet set-up.  A Heath Robinson looking affair, consisting of a squash bottle, part of a medical drip, stands and string.  It was very effective.  The drip tube allowed drops of one liquid (blackcurrant squash) to fall into a wine glass of another (milk) with a regular consistency.  The whole thing was backlit with off-camera flash, coloured with a gel insert and diffused by tracing paper held with a picture frame.

This kind of photography has more misses than hits, but the regularity of the dripping meant that I did get several shots timed about right.  It's definitely something I want to try again, and I will have to built my own set-up.