"Mad Cow" wrote in message
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Wow, yeah!

How did you do it?

Thanks.

Pretty basic really. I mounted my 60mm macro lens on the camera body, then
mounted the camera on a tripod, then move it up to where it thought I'd have
the best combination of composition and image/subect size (determined by
looking through the eyepiece), then focusing on a fixed point in the scene
where it looked like most of the drops were forming and dropping from the
end of the leaf. Then after focusing I "locked it in" by turning off my
autofocus.

I mounted my speedlight on top of the camera and I set the camera's shutter
speed all the way up to 1/8000 sec. I set the speedlight on full power, and
I set the aperture at the smallest size posssible vis-a-vis the light I had
available. The was determined by experimentation. I made a few shots at
different f-stops and inspected after each exposure. I inspected after each
test shot. Then when I reached the proper f-stop I then stood back and
watched the drips forming and dropping from the leaf and determined the
approx rhythm of it (about once a second) and started popping away about
every second. I made about 50 exposures. Most of them had no drop visible,
or they had a drop ust barely hanging from the leaf but not released yet.
Only one out of the entire batch was actually separated from the leaf and
falling and that's the one I posted.

Digital shots are free. It's not like I sat there and made 4 dozen shots
using 35mm film --- that'd get expensive.

But 4 dozen digital shots? No problem. They're all freebies.
--
Pat Durkin