Making a Splash 2

Following on from my previous post about water drop photography in this post I tried it with milk drops instead. Milk is more dense than water so produces a more interesting splash. Full cream milk is the best followed by semi skimmed and finally skimmed. I only had semi skimmed but it gave resonable results anyway.

 I used a different arrangement this time. Instead of using a tray of water to catch the drops I used a piece of glass from an A4 photo frame on top of an A4 sheet of red paper. This gives a coloured reflective surface. I used a dark cloth for the background and suspended a pipette full of milk 30cm above the glass. I made a tiny hole in the pipette which gave a slow,steady drop rate. The technique is much the same for the water drop photography.

I added some food colouring to the milk to give a bit of colour to the result in some of the shots. The resulting splashes look very different producing some very intricate splash crowns when you get the timing just right.