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Water Drops

I like doing water drop photos for four reasons: 1) it looks deceptively simple, 2) the challenge in capturing the moment of impact, 3) the surprising images you can capture, and 4) the fact there is no right way to do it.  For my most recent attempt at water drop photography, I light the drop from below, so the light would come up through the water.  This is different compared to other water drop photos where they light from the side or from above.  I feel lighting the drops from below give them more of a liquid glass appearance and an inner glow. Surprisingly, the set up for these photos was relatively simple.  I used the following items:          large edged baking sheet (to catch any overflow),          a bowl (to protect the flash equipment),          a flash with radio trigger,          an upside down aquarium (water drop platform),     ...

Cosplay at the Kennedy Center

Last week I went to the DC Cosplay Photoshoots meetup at the Kennedy Center .  There was no theme for this meetup, so cosplayers could dress as whatever character they wished, which is, both a good and bad thing for photographers. It is good because provides diverse characters, however it is bad because makes it harder to plan for since the characters could widely vary across genres thus affecting photographic style.  Thus, a general meet up is  slightly harder to prepare for, compared to a themed shoot where you know the types of  characters and the tone the shoot.  However, the general meet-up is good practice for a convention where you must be able to switch gears quickly to accommodate your shoot schedule, and be able to shoot on the fly to capture hall shots and do mini shoots. Cosplay: Fox McCloud Cosplayer: Dragon the Keyblade Maker There were several great cosplays at the general meetup, so I’m not going to discuss them all.  I will discu...