Water: A Stop Action Perspective

So, last week we had an assignment. That was to manipulate our shutterspeed and f/stop to capture part one, a blur, and then part two, stop action shots. I decided to go to one of our school's fountains and capture the water. The sun was out nice and bright, and the colors weren't too harsh. All shots were done with manual metering and focus.

Let us start off with some slower exposures. This one was pretty slow, therefor capturing the motion blur here.



Lets try a relatively faster f/stop.



See how the water is starting to take on more detail? Want to see what happens when you speed the combo way up?

Lets get started.















The art of the photo.

How about lets add a fountain and water hitting it, as well as the drops afterward.




















Another thing that was fun was changing perspective. I took advantage of the natural light and made individual droplets stand out even more, naturally darkening the background by metering the water, a highlight.






I hope you enjoyed! Have a wonderful week.

{All photos in posts are straight from the camera unless otherwise noted.}