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The dropper method is good. I had a setup that used an IV bag to provide the drops. I need to see if I can get one again.
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That's a great idea! I actually want to set something up, IV bags would probably be a good way to go about it, where I can drop 4-6 different colours at the same time. I might steal your idea! I will give you full credit though.
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That's fine. I remember seeing it on a photography forum some time back when I was trying to do drops for the first time, I'd credit it, but I truly don't remember where I got it from originally.
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Thanks so much! 
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Thanks very much. 
I have a super ghetto setup where I'm using the lid of like a can of deodarant screwed into a bit of wood with a hole in the bottom and then I put the wood on top of a box so it sits about 40cm from the top of the pan and then I just pour water into the lid and let it drip. I have a few different lids with differnet sized holes for different rates of water flow. This one is a larger hole so the water flows out quite quickly and it results in the water getting really churned up opposed to getting individual drips. I had one flash setup pointing down on the pan from behind and then one in the front so it really lights up all the buubles that are in the water itself. The light sort of goes through the water and reflects of the pan lighting it up from beneath. Hope that helps.
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thank you, very informative. I have shot water drops once, but was very time consuming, plus I have only one flash (and I was using a eye-dropper). Your method sounds much better.
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You're welcome. The eye dropper method is good for individual drops, that's what I started doing. You can do drops with one flash. I had a similar setup where the wood was above the pan and I had drilled a hole through it that the glass bit of the dropper could fit through so you placed it back in the exact same spot each time. Had the cam on tripod obviously and had set the focus (manually) Then I have a really slow shutter speed (like 3 secs - in a fairly dark room) and I have a flash that I trigger manually. I fill the dropper up with water and place it in the holder. Push the shutter on the camera, squeeze the dropper and then manually fire the flash which is what is capturing the image.
Good thing doing it that way is you can hold the flash in any position and get it really close to the droplet. Once you have the pan of water and whatever bodged together frame to hold the dropper in place you can take a long series of shots of; fill the dropper, place the dropper, push the shutter, squeeze the dropper, fire the flash: fill the dropper, place the dropper, push the shutter, squeeze the dropper, fire the flash...etc etc
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