Good or Bad

[mindforge]

Just turn it 180 degrees, looks very interesting...

[EJC]

Hi Sean

I've seen garden hose nozzles that have the flat fan or rectangular shape you're looking for. Great idea shooting with a flash. I've tried using every portable light in the house piled up on the kitchen counter and it's still not light enough.

EJC

[djKianoosh]

i like it. my only suggestion would be to try taking a vertical shot instead next time. i think a lot of the frame is lost in negative space which is probably why some people didn't like it. fill the frame with the droplets and see how it looks. you never know

[Sean]

Thanks again for all of the comments.

(1) Yes, a flat spraying hose. I'll have to find a way to make that work. Its winter here, so the hose is indoors, so I'll put that on the list for the springtime. The only challenge is that the picture should be taken in the dark so that the flash will freeze the image (I'll try taking the shot at night).

(2) I rotated the image, and it does look cool - even upside down.

(3) Funny, the picture was actually cropped tight to the water drops. I submitted the image to my camera club, and they have this strange regulation where the pictures must be 1024x768. You crop the photo to your preferred size, and then have to add a black canvas to fill out the full 1024x768. I started by defying the rules, and adding a white/grey canvas, tried a little drop shadow, or frame around the image, but found that I liked how the image looked surrounded by black. It never occurred to me to actually blend the black to the photo, and move the water drops to a 2/3 position. I'll try that as well.