A few shots from the weekend, using the flash to freeze water droplets striking the surface of a mango. The use of the mango is purely for the textures. The background didn’t work quite as well as I’d hoped: we have a composite work surface in the kitchen which is flecked with highly reflectively pieces of mineral, and I’m confident that my wife would shoot me if I coloured them in with a black marker :).

1/5 sec at F8, ISO 200 at 100mm

1/5 sec at F8, ISO 200 at 100mm

1/10 sec at F8, ISO 200 at 100mm

1/5 sec at F8, ISO 200 at 100mm

I think this is my favourite:

1/13 sec at F8, ISO 200 at 100mm

I may have another attempt at this: ideally I’d like to get full diameter of the splash pattern into focus, which means pushing the aperture a lot deeper. The main problem was that the ambient light was much too low, even at F8. Another problem I had in an earlier attempt was with the water leaving distorted trails on the image, as there was just enough light across the shutter setting to be exposed, above and beyond what the flash was freezing. I was going to try second curtain, to see if that would help and decided it wouldn’t, so went for the less technical solution of changing where the water droplet landed.