I played around on Tuesday night with a new light trigger – a device that fires my flash after a light beam is interrupted. These shots are of drops of milk falling into a surface of milk. Even with good tools it still takes a lot of patience to get one you like. I ended up with 200 cool images that I narrowed down to these three.
Milk drop just hitting the surface
The image above was a quick hit on flickr, getting over 500 views in just two days and becoming my second most favorited (sic) image.
Milk stream
Milk drop
I like the second image sideways better than straight up. The stream of milk looks much more mysterious this way. The final image came in third place on Wednesday night in competition at the Palo Alto Camera Club.
The images were all manipulated in Lightroom to bring out a little more drama from the lighting.