Ok. This is a little embarrasing, but there you go. It isn't called get pushed for nothing! Thought I would record my trials in the hope that there might be some improvement by the end of the week, but today I took four shots and you see them all.
I have been challenged to take a shot of something floating/moving such as water, powder, honey, milk or glitter. I was referred to this image as an example:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28286225@N02/32657776843/
I can see I shall be working on this all week. Which is a good thing. But I am going to have to buck my ideas up and come up with some solutions following my first attempt.
Todays successes:
1) I found a short amount of time in the day to attempt this.
2) I found a way to secure three spoons in a stacked position
3) it didn't work, but I tried to be creative by taking an overhead shot to overcome the problem with the backing paper, hoping that some flow would still be visible
4) I managed not to get the camera lens wet!
Todays failures:
1) despite knowing that my shutter speed was far too slow to expect reasonable results hand held, I failed to increase the ISO (yes, really!)
2) despite realising that using one hand to shoot and the other to pour was a recipe for disaster, I failed to ask someone else to pour the liquid so that I could concentrate on the camera.
3) because I was more worried about where the water might end up and wanted to direct it into the sink, I failed to compose the shot such that the backing paper covered a large enough area to show all three spoons against the paper, and so that there were no other objects in the way.
Things I might try before the end of the week:
1) use the inbuilt camera flash for better lighting
2) spend more time getting the set up right
3) use a tripod
4) find a way to change the angle of the spoons to get a better flow
5) choose a different more viscous substance
6) think of a different way to fulfil the challenge
I am open to suggestions .....
ideally you would have the spoons clamped in place, the camera set up on a tripod, manually prefocused, with a remote shutter, then you could do the pouring yourself without anything else moving.