Back in the swing of things

It’s been a really tough week, with sick kids, sick me and a lot of craziness at work. Today I had a chance to break my streak of half-assed pictures.

I have been really trying to learn how to get water drop isolation, so I read up on some techniques from some other the fellow contributors on http://photography-on-the.net/forum/ –

Camera Settings –

On tripod, set for 2 sec. exposure, 100 ISO, f/8.0. Shot with Canon T2i / 50MM 1.8 mkII

Setup Information

Remote Flash bounced off the back wall; I use these dresser drawer inserts that were to an old IKEA dresser that went defunct, they are a pale blue but clip like a pure white with a direct flash, or with continuous light, they can produce a nice neutral blue…look at me.. re-purposing things :0

here is the outcome: