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Aren’t these photos neat? Believe it or not, water droplet photography is extremely easy.

Depending on whether you want to shoot in your own staged environment or if you want to go outside and look for water drops to shoot, you need minimal equipment. Essentially, you’ll only need a tripod to avoid camera shake and maintain focus. If you have a macro lens, use it. If you want to get fancy, you can use different colored backgrounds or gelled lights, but in reality, you can shoot fantastic photos without these.

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Water droplet photography employs many of the same techniques needed to take great macro photos. For water droplet photos, use a relatively high shutter speed to stop the water, and choose an aperture that gives you your desired depth of field. (You’ll probably want a larger aperture most of the time to keep backgrounds clean and isolate your subject matter.

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To set things up, use a tripod and align your camera close to the subject. Make sure your focus is spot on, then double check your focus. Once you’re sure you nailed your focus, shoot a lot of photos. If you find that you aren’t liking your images, change up your angle. You’ll literally need to take tons of photos to get a couple you like.

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If you’re feeling adventurous, try experimenting with a flash. However, you’ll find that in most cases a flash is more trouble than it’s worth. But one thing’s for sure, even though these are easy photos to set up and the equipment needed is minimal, you’ll need a lot of patience to get water droplet photos you’re happy with.

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