It seems to be our tradition that the OH & I spend New Year's Eve playing with the drip rig.
As is customary, it's been a total 'mare trying to select just one shot (we've tried all sorts of shots), but we ended up choosing this one. It's a bit different to previous years and I thought it was quite elegant.
Anyway, many thanks to everyone who has viewed, commented or otherwise endured my shots in 2014. It's very much appreciated.
Hope everyone has a happy & prosperous 2015.
Happy New Year!
For anyone interested, here's our previous New Year's Eve attempts:
http://365project.org/humphreyhippo/365/2012-12-31
http://365project.org/humphreyhippo/2013/2013-12-31
[2019 Update - This calendar is now locked due to picture-scraping sites. :( ]
Currently on a break after a decade of 365.
**Woefully bad at commenting :(**
A picture-a-day rather than a photo-a-day project, which probably came to a close...
@northy The flashes (one each side) are triggered by the drop breaking a laser. It's shot in the dark and the flashes have to be at their lowest power to freeze the motion (power = flash time duration - I think they were both at 1/64th power). You also want as a high an f-stop as possible to get as much DoF as you can. It's usually a trade-off between F-stop and ISO, before there is so much noise that you can't bear it. ;)
The drip rig opens the shutter (camera is in bulb mode), releases the drip valve, detects the drip, waits x milliseconds, fires the flash and then closes the shutter.
It's all beyond me, but the other half built it from scratch using an Arduino and it never fails to amaze me. :)
@stevecameras yeah - gets incredible results... i'd say it isn't something i'd ever try, but i think i said that about the lens baby... and now i have one... anyhow... VERY cool...
@humphreyhippo oh my goodness, I just read how you achieved this! My computer engineer son would love the challenge of building this but I'm not even going to mention it in fear that he might. Lol.
Simply fabulous and my favourite of your new year's eve shots (so far!).
A very happy New Year to you both. Your description of the OH's invention is way beyond me but wow, it must be fun :)
Happy New Year to you and all the best for 2015!
The drip rig opens the shutter (camera is in bulb mode), releases the drip valve, detects the drip, waits x milliseconds, fires the flash and then closes the shutter.
It's all beyond me, but the other half built it from scratch using an Arduino and it never fails to amaze me. :)
Not tried anything like this...great stuff.
Happy New Year.
@jase_yet_again nice to see you again :)
A very happy New Year to you both. Your description of the OH's invention is way beyond me but wow, it must be fun :)