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Posted on 02/04/18 00:23:15 AM |
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vibeke
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Re: How I'm wasting my time
 _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 02/04/18 00:23:33 AM |
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vibeke
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Re: How I'm wasting my time
 _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 02/04/18 10:24:03 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: How I'm wasting my time
Terrific! Spectacular even! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 02/04/18 11:18:45 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: How I'm wasting my time
Cheap strobe lights like this must be available in your country. It means switching your rig to continuous running successive drips for strobe lit analysis during which you can adjust height, liquid depth and viscosity. Watching running drips lit by a strobe is little short of miraculous. As you adjust the flicker speed and get close to drip frequency the drops appear to slow down until they quite literally stop and float immobile in mid air. (You can even make them appear to defy gravity and rise back up into the nozzle  )
Once the drops are frozen so are the splashes and you can see with the naked eye the kind of shape and form they are taking. It's far from perfect but enough to get a very good prediction and to make the necessary basic adjustments by eye before you start photographing and fine tuning as you do now. Obviously this implies the ability to switch your rig between continuous running for the analysis and then back to single drop once you have set the rig and liquid as you want them. I have no idea whether this is possible or not. But, if it is, it might be worth a try. The investment is minimal and it could save you a lot of frustration and headache ....... ....... and, what's more, ....... it's fun!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 02/04/18 7:05:24 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply |
Re: How I'm wasting my time
Thanks David, Didn't realise you could get strobe lights at such reasonable prices, I will start looking. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 05/04/18 10:28:04 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5674 Reply |
Re: How I'm wasting my time
Just make sure you get one with variable speed control. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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