Are you using a dedicated macro lens or are you cropping down?

Nah macro lenses are too expensive for someone like me . +4 Hoya Close up lens on a 70-210mm lens (I think I was at 210...), this photo was not cropped. I kinda wished I had it a bit lower though.

ahhh ok, that would account for it being a bit soft. Still a great capture though. You also have a bit of motion blur on the drop itself, what was the power setting on your flash?

Oh I do my water droplets quite differently than normal. I set my camera to 1 second exposure and then I use an old external flash (Minolta Auto 200x) to manually flash (so like the test button). Its a hassle to set up (and to press 2 buttons in a certain order) but I liked the results so far and it allows me to control where my flash is. My power setting for my flash is at low since I can adjust how bright my image is by simply bring my flash farther or closer to the subject and it saves power (and faster recyclinng time!).

http://www.diyphotography.net/the-comprehensive-water-drop-photography-guide

This is a good site for info.

Good start.. keep it up.

Haha thanks for the site!

It's a very good question, I took the goal as to be 1 piece, but you are quite right, it does not say so.Hopefully Mods will soon clarify.

seems I was wrong and it's OK as long as it's only one type, but there must be a more interesting way of photographing peas.

i wish the reflection was a bit more in focus :/ unless, of course, that was your intent!

this being on a carpet does nothing for the photo in my opinion.

its not a carpet, its a huge cauliflower!

Imi place

mersi

that would scare me

i was scared too when i took this one :P

very eerie

@ Mircea: well.. i jumped through a window, because the door was blocked..and just took it )