Milk

I was playing around with water and milk the other day. Yes it is indeed a bit messy operation. It is best to have a glass table or something you can wipe easily :)  But I really wanted to practice high speed shots of liquid.

I used two flashes and I controlled one of them with a radio trigger. I set the power on both flashes to 1/16, which means they fire quite fast, like 1/4000 of a second. The flashes were pretty much facing each other and I poured the milk in a plate, in between them.

The camera settings don't matter much, as long as you have no other light in the image other than from the flashes. And make sure you have a small aperture, somewhere around f/11 or 14 to have as much of the picture sharp as you can. My settings were: shutter speed 1/30, f/14. The tricky thing is to pour the liquid and press the shutter at the time it hits the surface :)

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