Awesome shot! Great color.

Awesome capture - well done

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!

awesome!

Beautiful

Congratulations for your fist place.

Nice Job Congats on first place win

Thank you!

Nice droplet, but hard to see what's in it

thanks kyricom,

I dunno if you would agree with me but I think this picture is a bit too bright

TankRed, may be, but then, it is sunshine, I don't think I should reduce brightness

no, what you should do is play with the curves to try and get details in the highlights, otherwise you loose the interesting detail of the leaves and the water droplets on them

Yeah, dem90, details are lost, but this picture already has been played with, and it is all I can get. It's called BOH (blown out highlights) - fault of most of the compact cameras, all details are lost. Just for nest time I should to remember to bring down exposure, about -1, sometime it helps.

Yeah, dem90, details are lost, but this picture already has been played with, and it is all I can get. It's called BOH (blown out highlights) - fault of most of the compact cameras, all details are lost. Just for nest time I should to remember to bring down exposure, about -1, sometime it helps.