Water Crowns.

What i wanted to do here was to drop water into water and capture the moment just as the two met which would give you a water crown.The set up consisted of a large bowl of water and a container suspended above with a small hole at the bottom so a drip of water would constantly drip into the bowl,to improve the blandness of clear water i added a blue food die to the bowl of water but not to the water suspended above.I used my Nikon D300s with a Nikon 2.8 -105 mil macro lense with a Nikon speed light (SB600)attached to the camera with settings of f/11 at 1/250sec with an ISO of 250 at 105mil ,i also selected a 7 frame per second burst of photots to freeze the droplets or crown as it appeared (if at all) .This first shot captured the water droplets falling into the bowl but i was to quick and the droplets never reached the bowl of water when i had finished my burst of shots.

This second shot was taken using the same settings as before but this time i was too slow and capturing the splash too late.

For this shot i lightened the picture slightly by changing the aperture to f/8 so i could let more light into the lense but i still missed the moment when the droplet hit the water in the bowl.

These next two shots were firstly to early and secondly too late,but not by much.

Again nice images but not what i wanted,they are bright,clear and sharp but nit what i want.

This was just one droplet as it dropped towards the bowl ,i cropped the original image to get this photo as i liked the roundness and clarity of the falling water droplet.

Final shot and as you can see i nearly succeeded but the image is not good its is not sharp enough for me ,good fun though but not what i wanted.