![]() The placement in the background is really important for success. Can’t be too far left, right, up, or down. There is a certain amount of alignment you have to practice with to get it right. You put a flower in the background just a few inches behind the water droplets and you can show off the beauty of nature very differently than the landscape photos you see so many of today. For this image Don’s wife wasn’t thrilled about having ants in the house so he had to go outdoors for this particular image. A dollar store spray bottle and some other pieces of gear that are very inexpensive (see below) in a fairly small space and you are good to go. One of the very few that are done outside, most are done in a studio or on a tabletop where the environment can be better controlled (wind and sun for example). Most plants when sprayed with water will only get kind of a sheen or puddle of water. Not everything provides the same water tension conditions to produce these beautifully spherical water droplets and that is exactly what you need to have in order to create the best water droplet refraction photos. After all, they are everywhere! This is a very specific blade of grass, one called blue fescue.īlue fescue grass is a bluegrass that has a powder coating on the grass that is tremendously helpful in making water gather in the spheres like are seen here in the image just by using a spray bottle that has a decent capability of shooting a mist. ![]() The easiest part is getting a blade of grass. That is by far the hardest part of this and we are going to ignore that part for this episode. ![]() Let’s leave the ant out of the equation here as we get started into dissecting what it took to create this photo. Jewels of Summer “Jewels of Summer” by Don Komarechka Hopefully we inspire a few photographers to give this a try. I have picked a couple of favorites of mine from his images on his website and we are going to walk through the setup and process of creating each. I am sure most photographers have seen this kind of photography before, but to see a few examples you need to visit Don’s website at. You have to create something beautiful to photograph and then you have to be the photographer to document it after you have sculpted your art. ![]() Whatever is behind the water droplet will show up in the droplet. The more spherical the droplet is, the better lens it becomes. ![]() The number of moving parts to make macro photography work means that it doesn’t take much to have everything come crashing down and when you take off that blind fold then all you see is a mess and you don’t really know what the problem was.Įffectively, water droplet photography boils down to making a lens out of the water droplets in you scene. Don likes to say that macro photography can be a little like juggling eggs blind folded. If you are completely new to macro photography be sure to check out Getting Started In Macro Photography. Macro Photography Is Like Juggling Eggsĭon Komarechka is one of the world’s best macro photographers. We are going to walk through some examples and talk about how photographers can create stunning images similar to these. There are a number of images there where Don has done an incredible job of creating images that emphasize the beauty of nature using water droplets. I am sure you have seen photos featuring water droplet refraction, but you have to check out some of the images Don has on his website over at under the Macro Water menu. ![]()
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