Happy accident

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I was messing around with water and flashguns again (there is at least one theme emerging here).
One flash failed to fire on me for one or two shots, perhaps a transient radio issue, or the batteries in were dying, and couldn't keep up; but I ended up preferring the shot where the flash didn't do its thing!
I've included a couple of shots where things went according to plan after the jump.

2 flashes, one each side on the front, one flash, gelled green, on the backdrop, and when it worked, a fourth flash with a tight grid fitted, aimed from the back right.

I've made an interesting discovery that the EOS 80D seems to have much more jitter in its trigger time than the EOS M6 Mk II does. The M6 II seems to have very little jitter, in that subsequent frames triggered identically don't vary much, but the 80D seems to vary quite a lot. I might try and measure it at some point, just for the hell of it.

Levitate (briefly)

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I've been playing with water again. Not entirely happy with this result, but it's a fiddly process, and I've got fed up for the day!
I took a high speed video of the setup in action, so you can see a little behind the scenes after the jump. (Trigger warning: The video clip contains flashing lights)  

Splat

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Playing with water photos again...
I used a device that's sadly now no longer made, the µTrigger, to take this photo.
The µTrigger was mounted to a 3D-printed bracket, which aligns a laser and dripper arrangement, such that the falling drops activate the optical sensor of the µTrigger. The µTrigger has a time delay function, so by varying that, I could synchronise the shutter to the moment the drops hit the tray.
I'm planning to do a some more with this setup now that I've got it working.