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I am still struggling with this whole water drops thing, still experimenting.....today's session was frustrating for a while until I realized, duh, that I'd neglected to change an important setting, which made all the difference. I had returned to trying to shoot drops over an image displayed on my iPhone. Kept getting these annoying lines that were not part of the original image and then it finally dawned on me: one needs to use single-image focus for this kind of project and not any form of continuous focus! Usually I keep the A7R V on single-shot but had switched it to Continuous Low when shooting something a week or two ago and had totally forgotten about that. DUH....

Also at one point this afternoon I managed to lightly slice a finger when I picked up the piece of glass at somewhat the wrong angle so that my finger slid right to the very sharp corner (that Rain-X makes the glass slippery!). Oops -- ouch! Fortunately, only some bleeding for a little while and then application of an antibacterial ointment and it's been mildly uncomfortable but overall quite manageable. Definitely a strong reminder and heads-up to me to pay attention when I'm picking up that piece of glass!!

I shot drops positioned in various ways over several images from my earlier photos that were displayed on the iPhone 11 Pro, having found a comfortable and reasonably safe arrangement for supporting the piece of glass, but am thinking that next time I am going to use my iPad mini 5, which is a bit larger and I think it will (hopefully) be easier to focus more accurately plus also will not require as much cropping in the end. Couldn't do that today since that device was nearly out of battery power and needed to be charged up before setting it to "never lock" and positioning it for some time during the shooting session.

The majority of the images I shot today went straight to the trash bin, but I did manage to get a few with which I am fairly pleased:

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<blockquote data-quote="Clix Pix" data-source="post: 39531" data-attributes="member: 193">I am still struggling with this whole water drops thing, still experimenting.....today&#039;s session was frustrating for a while until I realized, duh,&nbsp; that I&#039;d neglected to change an important setting, which made all the difference.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had returned to trying to shoot drops over an image displayed on my iPhone.&nbsp; Kept getting these annoying lines that were not part of the original image and then it finally dawned on me:&nbsp; one needs to use single-image focus for this kind of project and not any form of continuous focus!&nbsp;&nbsp; Usually I keep the A7R V on single-shot but had switched it to Continuous Low when shooting something a week or two ago and had totally forgotten about that.&nbsp; DUH....&nbsp;Also at&nbsp; one point this afternoon I managed to lightly slice a finger when I picked up the piece of glass at somewhat the wrong angle so that my finger slid right to the very sharp corner (that Rain-X makes the glass slippery!).&nbsp; Oops -- ouch!&nbsp; Fortunately, only some bleeding for a little while and then application of an antibacterial ointment and it&#039;s been mildly uncomfortable but overall quite manageable.&nbsp; Definitely a strong reminder and heads-up to me to pay attention when I&#039;m picking up that piece of glass!! I shot drops positioned in various ways over several images from my earlier photos&nbsp; that were displayed on the iPhone 11 Pro, having found a comfortable and reasonably safe arrangement for supporting the piece of glass, but am thinking that next time I am going to use my iPad mini 5, which is a bit larger and I think it will (hopefully) be easier to focus more accurately plus also will not require as much cropping in the end.&nbsp;&nbsp; Couldn&#039;t do that today since that device was nearly out of battery power and needed to be charged up before setting it to &quot;never lock&quot; and positioning it for some time during the shooting session. The majority of the images I shot today went straight to the trash bin, but I did manage to get a few with which I am fairly pleased:[ATTACH=full]40041[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]40042[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]40043[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clix Pix, post: 39531, member: 193"] I am still struggling with this whole water drops thing, still experimenting.....today's session was frustrating for a while until I realized, duh, that I'd neglected to change an important setting, which made all the difference. I had returned to trying to shoot drops over an image displayed on my iPhone. Kept getting these annoying lines that were not part of the original image and then it finally dawned on me: one needs to use single-image focus for this kind of project and not any form of continuous focus! Usually I keep the A7R V on single-shot but had switched it to Continuous Low when shooting something a week or two ago and had totally forgotten about that. DUH.... Also at one point this afternoon I managed to lightly slice a finger when I picked up the piece of glass at somewhat the wrong angle so that my finger slid right to the very sharp corner (that Rain-X makes the glass slippery!). Oops -- ouch! Fortunately, only some bleeding for a little while and then application of an antibacterial ointment and it's been mildly uncomfortable but overall quite manageable. Definitely a strong reminder and heads-up to me to pay attention when I'm picking up that piece of glass!! I shot drops positioned in various ways over several images from my earlier photos that were displayed on the iPhone 11 Pro, having found a comfortable and reasonably safe arrangement for supporting the piece of glass, but am thinking that next time I am going to use my iPad mini 5, which is a bit larger and I think it will (hopefully) be easier to focus more accurately plus also will not require as much cropping in the end. Couldn't do that today since that device was nearly out of battery power and needed to be charged up before setting it to "never lock" and positioning it for some time during the shooting session. The majority of the images I shot today went straight to the trash bin, but I did manage to get a few with which I am fairly pleased: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Capturing the Color.jpeg"]40041[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Yolk.jpg"]40042[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Secrets.jpeg"]40043[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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