Friday 17 September 2010

259: Flash Boil

I have to take some more of these; the small series I shot today seemed like a good start, but just not close enough to capture the finer boiling details.
One thing I didn't anticipate was how many tiny droplets would be captured in mid-air over the iron plate - they look quite magical just suspended, while the water still on the plate is frozen, but clearly shimmering and dancing in a state of mid-eruption.

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 9mm extension, 1/4 flash, foil reflector, tripod. Luminance curve adjustment, sharpening, cropped to 5:4.

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