![]() ![]() It’s the Tamron 90mm macro lens which allows me to get in tight so I can focus close. So now I know what’s going to be in focus. The way I know that’s in the right place is when I hit the app, and it shoots for me, the drop has been cut in half by that ruler. And so when I turn on my camera, I can focus right on that ruler. I placed an a clamp on it that will hold a ruler in place. And so what we did is we put two Platypod Ultras, one on each side with a gooseneck. And so on a regular strobe if you just aim that at the splash or aim at this card, there’s a long flash burn and it’s going to make that liquid blur.įocus was kind of a problem with this little setup. One of the biggest problems with doing something like this that it blurs when it’s splashing. You might think that’s not a big deal, but it is. And that’s going to help to stop everything and to really freeze the liquid in place. I dial them all the way down to 2.5 on T mode, because I want them to give me a fast flash duration to freeze the liquid. I used two of the Westcott FJ400 strobes. But then if I needed to, I could put a black card on each side to give me a black definition line. So as that splash goes up, I’ve got a nice white from behind that is going to open up that flash and make it look bright. So the dark room gives me definition to the right and left side of that liquid. The light is only hitting this white card to give me a great exposure. There’s black all around this setup because of the dark room. I don’t need a very large white card because it’s a very small macro shot. I’m going to aim my light at the white card behind the liquid. I’m not going to aim my light at the liquid in this first setup. I’m going to light this just like you would a beverage in a glass. Let’s talk about how we’re going to light our liquid here. We can work with dark underneath the bowl and white in the background. So that just gives us a lot of different options, kind of a clean canvas here. We can put a gel on the light and make it whatever color we want. We’re putting a white background up behind us so that we have the ability to change the color on that background. ![]() And that’s just to make sure we don’t get any reflections off of anything from this room into the bowl so it’s clean white. We’re putting that underneath our clear bowl. So we’re rolling some Duvetyne out, which is just black material that really sucks up the light. It makes it a lot easier for us to work with. I just like to use a c-stand because it gets out over the table where we’re working. You could put this onto a tripod, if you want to suspend it off the tripod. I have it attached to the quarter twenty on the end of this Savage c-stand.Īnd you could also put a plate on this and attach it to an ARCA Swiss plate. So the Miops Splash comes with a either a hot shoe or cold shoe kind of adapter. You’ve got a quarter twenty on the bottom of the Miops Splash so the magic arm can attach to the quarter twenty. Everything just makes it easy to leave this in your setup. It’s easy to change the color of the water. You can twist out this piece on the side where you can take the nozzle off and clean it. It allows you to add your drops and to give delays and to be able to play with the settings. So you don’t have to worry about it powering down or losing power. It used to be that you had to take it apart to get to the battery. There’s some other things about this Miops Splash that are fantastic. ![]() The aluminum nozzle has made it so I can get the drops exactly where I want them. And it gives you much more control and has made it more predictable. It has a much more modern look, it has a machined aluminum nozzle, which is the most important thing here, because it gives you a much sharper drop. This new Miops Splash is a much different device than the first one that they released. This is such a fun thing to do if you’re a photo nerd and you want to do something that’s just fun to do when it’s a rainy day or it’s winter time, or just because you want to lock yourself away and shoot away. We’re going to take pictures of splashes. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to do a little macro photography. In this video Jay P demonstrates step by step how to use the Miops Splash Kit to create stunning splash images from water drops. The New Miops Water Drop Kit will help you create and capture stunning Splash Photos. ![]()
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