Water, water everywhere

There is a great article in this weeks Amateur Photographer about photographing water droplets and given the weather was very wet I thought I'd have a go.

The set up is simple really just a container with water in, the camera on a tripod and a flash unit, preferably off camera. The difficult part is timing the flash to go off at the moment of impact. In the AP article the photographer had all sorts of solenoids and electrical contacts. I tried trial and error! Well, the results are below from about 297 shots. The colours come from a yellow lever arch file standing behind the bowl, sometimes with a blue towel under the bowl and sometimes with white balance on tungsten. 

Have a go yourselves and see what you can come up with. Any more info you would like, drop me a line.