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There are essentially two ways to freeze motion with a camera:
1.Use a Fast Shutter Speed such that the “sliver of time” you are capturing is very short and the object being captured moves very little, if at all, during the extremely short duration the shutter is open, or
2.Use the very Short Duration of a Flash so that the object you are photographing gets illuminated for a very small sliver of time. The duration time of an electronic flash can be extremely short. For example, a Speedlight like the Canon 580EXII at 1/128 power is less than 1/19,000th of a second!

Hilarious... had a lot of fun with this. I tried without flash... dismal results, but not really the right lens for the job, so resorted to flash. Even then, focus was not that good but hey, I tried :-) Spent an hour at least... Remote control and tripod, plenty of timing issues... After a break, I tried again, with a helper dropping the pepper, better result... although the poor pepper was starting to look a little battered :-)

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22 comments - The latest ones
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Cool! B-)

Somehow I did not think of using flash at all! Although, retrospectively thinking it could have been cool to try some stroboscope effect:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroboscope

P.S. I dare to suggest cropping generously from left and right.
4 years ago.
Gillian Everett club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Thanks Sami, have already cropped it, but agree, even a square format...
4 years ago.
 Coco
Coco club
Nice capture. Like the pepper and water colors.
4 years ago.
 Amelia
Amelia club
Well - I think that this is a splendid result. I'm so pleased that you had a great time realizing the challenge, Gillian.
4 years ago.
 Xata
Xata club
You did great on this!
I have no flash and never used one except once with friends in a photo studio photographing drops falling in water (splash art) and it was fun too.

Splash-Art I - II
4 years ago.
 aNNa schramm
aNNa schramm club
der richtige Moment - ich habe leider nicht die Geduld
4 years ago.
 Diederik Santema
Diederik Santema club
Great effect!
4 years ago.
 Jan
Jan
So Impressed Gillian
4 years ago.
 Chrissy
Chrissy club
spritzig!
4 years ago.
 PhLB - Luc Boonen
PhLB - Luc Boonen club
sounds familiar, but we tried Gillian!!
4 years ago.
 M♥rJ Photogr♥phy !! ( Marj )
M♥rJ Photogr♥phy !!… club
Super image Gillian ....when water imge are shown like this it almost looks to me like Mercury !!!
4 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
Very nice capture of the splash.
4 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
You did really well! A helper does help indeed, I had lots of trouble doing it all myself;-)
4 years ago.
 Amazingstoker
Amazingstoker
Great result, nicely frozen in time
4 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
Well done, Gillian. I tried something on these lines some time back and soon found it wasn't as easy as it looks. :-)
4 years ago.
 Nora Caracci
Nora Caracci club
fantastic instantaneous shot !
4 years ago.
 Clickity Click
Clickity Click
Sorry for late comment Gillian.

Great splashes here. First impression was that of a fish coming out and back into the water. The contrast with the bright green and red works well. Takes more patience & skill than I have I'm afraid. Glad you had fun with this. Every time I have tried it I got soaking wet.

Hope you and the family are well.

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4 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
 polytropos
polytropos club
This is a great one!
4 years ago.
 Gabi Lombardo
Gabi Lombardo club
great work!
4 years ago.
 Jean
Jean
I thought I’d commented so sorry. You got an impressive result for your hard work. I’ve tried this in the past and made a right dogs breakfast.
4 years ago.
 Sylvie Coeffic
Sylvie Coeffic
Wow ! Bravo! :-)
3 years ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
Great and colorful ! Fine picture, Gillian !
3 years ago.

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