Coming Back To Life
by gyaban

Comment by Ja-9:
love your colors and border...

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Comment by citymars:
Congratulations, Christopher. That's a cool mug, by the way -- it looks like leather.

Thanks for sharing your settings and process, I'm always impressed when a photographer generously does that. It makes up for not marking your comments as helpful. :-D

Boom boom
by gyaban

Comment by Debbi:
Very interesting and intriguing shot!

Was the cup red or black? Red paper behind cup? I'm trying to figure the light placement. I see one flash on the right side, but how did the light get on the other side of the mug? Bounce card? Any setup shots? This shot much have shot over $1,000 dollars worth of equip?

Extremely well done and masterfully executed!
Debbi

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Comment by NayDiz:
cool man!!! that coffee mug is awesome!!!

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Comment by damell:
I'm so inspired!! This is brilliant! Well done.

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Comment by RianBotes:
Beautifull and i whish I could one day capture someting like this. These type of shots are really a challenge for me. You have given me something to aspire to. Great work.

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Comment by jomari:
Brilliant image. Congratulations.

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Comment by IreneM:
Wow! Very beautiful. The rich colors set the scene perfectly. Congrats on your ribbon, Christophe.

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Comment by Jutilda:
Man, you aced it. Congrats!!

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Comment by manavg:

Originally posted by gyaban: @manavg: The module was controlling: - the solenoid valve positioned above the cup (and connected to a tank containing milk) - an infrared motion detector, positioned below the valve, on the droplets' way - the DSLR - the flash Most of the technical work consisted in programming the module, so that it would allow for 2 consecutive droplets to fall within about 80ms, trigger the DSRL just after that, detect the droplets falling next to the motion detector, and fire the flash bursts accordingly. At first I tried all of this manually, but it was a real nightmare, especially without the solenoid valve to launch 2 droplets at will... you should have seen my tries using a perforated yogurt pot in a dark room :-) Overall, it took me about 2.000 tries, distributed over 4 week-ends, but I'm a slow guy!

Woah! Thank you! I'm going to try out something like this over the week (and weeks to come)..hopefully, I'll get a suitable challenge to display a selection... i don't have a StopShot module..and probably may not be able to afford it right now - so I'm gonna have way more than 2000 shots! :-)

Thanks again, and a fantastic picture!