Coronet

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted July 27, 2011132 views8 comments

Thanks for the feedback on my previous water drop photo.

Here is another. This is what happens immediately after a water drop makes contact with the pool, a coronet is formed. This is where the water drop makes a crater like formation in the surface of the water. The droplets that appear to be flying towards the coronet are actually flying away from it. The effect is produced because of a to long a flash duration as the flash is turned off the is a light drag that appears.

This one again was made with two flash heads, one on the right with a blue gel and one bouncing off a white background with a yellow gel. The colors mixed wonderfully to produce the green.

With a Nikon D2x, Nikon 80-200mm f/4 lens with a +2 diopter for close focusing.

Comments and critiques appreciated.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Philip Schwarz on July 27, 2011 at 1:14 PM

Nicely captured.

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Comment posted by denise ippolito on July 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM

Youssef, This is lovely. The colors and the action stopped came together nicely.

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Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on July 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM

Striking photo. At first the droplets, I thought, were returning after being expelled upward by the first drop. Now I can see that they would be travelling outward from center and would not be returning to the center of splash. Neat lesson you have taught here.

Charlie

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Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on July 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM

Wow, that's cool Youssef!! Wonderful color and composition. Great timing to capture this and very creative!!

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on July 27, 2011 at 10:33 PM

Youssef:
Beautifully done. I like the mixture of two color flash and the time lag effect.

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on July 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM

Great image and wonderful blue green color.

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on July 30, 2011 at 9:00 PM

Great, Youssef! Good timing on snapping the shutter. Also lovely colors
and lighting. Keep these water droplet images coming.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on August 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM

Cool. Love the colors to go with the stop-action.

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