{"id":7,"date":"2006-11-30T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martin-waugh.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-01-13T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T19:12:14","slug":"technique-part-1-camera-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Technique: Part 1 &#8211; Camera &#038; Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have asked about the photographic techniques I use for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidsculpture.com\">Liquid Sculpture<\/a> images. Here are the basics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camera &#038; lens<\/li>\n<li>Light<\/li>\n<li>Control<\/li>\n<li>Liquids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Camera &#038; Lens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have only used digital cameras for this work. I learn from my mistakes, so I take tens of thousands of pictures. Without the immediate feedback of digital photography, my learning curve would left me an old man several times over.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a Nikon 950, but, of course, it doesn&#8217;t have the resolution, options, and electronic controllability needed.<\/p>\n<p>I have since used a variety of Canon digital SLRs: D60, 10D, 20D, and now the 5D. In some ways the 20D has been the best for this work. It has decent resolution, and the APS-C sensor gives a little more magnification with better depth of field.<\/p>\n<p>I almost always use mirror lock-up because it makes the shutter lag much more repeatable. It might help with camera shake, but given the short exposure, I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>For a lens, I have used a 100mm macro, a 70-200mm zoom, and a 180mm macro. I like the 180mm: it gives me good working distance, smooth bokeh, and excellent optics. The camera is about 2-3 feet from the splash zone to get a reasonable field of view. For greater depth of field, I try to shoot at f\/16, but I don&#8217;t often have enough light for that. I am usually one stop short.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"http:\/\/martin-waugh.com\/?p=8\">The Light<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have asked about the photographic techniques I use for my Liquid Sculpture images. Here are the basics: Camera &#038; lens Light Control Liquids Camera &#038; Lens I have only used digital cameras for this work. I learn from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/?p=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-waugh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}