Freeze Frame!

 

Ok, firstly, do yourself a favor and get a tripod, they are not very expensive, come in different sizes & extremly important for clicking photographs under low light condition. And yes, I used a Tripod for this shot.  
In this particular image, I set the camera on Shutter Priority Mode & kept the shutter @ a constant speed of 1/2500 to freeze catch the water movement. I only adjusted the ISO (800) until I felt the exposure was perfect. I did use the Nissin DI866 Mark II flash for this at High Speed Sync and bounced it off the ceiling. Note this snap was taken in the night, under fluorescent light bulbs so I had to use the Flash or the image would have turned out very dark.

Even if you do not have an external flash, don’t fret, your pop-up flash on the cam will do just fine; expect that it will click at a speed of 1/200 only. You’re going to have to use a lot of lighting & increase the ISO to max compensate for the low lights. You can also click in daylight if you cannot get enough lighting to click at a higher shutter speed.

After making sure I had the right exposure and lighting set up, all that was left to do was to keep dropping the Almond seed (YES ALMOND :P ) into my Fish tank!!! *(YES FISH TANK :P) and trying to get the right shot. Luckily, it didn’t take too long before I felt that I had snapped the perfect picture and above is the result of this. Not bad, eh? A little tuning using Google’s Picassa editor helped bring out the right tones for the snap.

*No Fish were harmed in the making of this Image ;)

Savio A. D'souza

-SnapThat!