i bet i'm not the only one who, at first glance, thought it was blood

Heheheh .. i'm not a vampire .. really .. honest but yeah it did look rather suspect :)

they there. :)
i recently experimented a little with waterdrops. you should get yourself a IV line for around 2$ from a local drugstore. Makes life easier

heres some results from me:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9059099/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8998930/
http://gall.akulatraxas.de/albums/a.....4-IMG_0116.jpg

I had a pipette in my camera kit bag but couldn't find it when i was trying this out .. fortunately the bottles of colouring i bought have a plastic covering with a small hole so i could at least get some sort of droplets going.. i'll certainly check out the links though :)

Not sure if i'll do this again though, will need to return my friends flash gun before long .. but its given me food for thought, thank you :)

iam using a 10$ manual flash from osram with a burntime of 1/160.000 seconds. So, if you have to return it and want to experiment further, get you something like that. :)

Hmmm .. thats something to think about, the other problem i had was that my friend didn't give me the manual for his flash gun .. so it was a complete amount of poking buttons.

Thanks for your feedback :)

its set to "M"anual and shutter to 1 second. there is some exif data if you are interested:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9059099/

Wow .. your link :) hehe that was the shot i was picturing in my head :) i have much to learn, and the whole f/stop and exposure time makes me go a little

I'll have a sit down with the users guide and supplementary guide a friend bought for me too :) clearly i have more to learn :)

Thanks for all your comments and also the pointers and links, its appreciated

yup!
I've already seen that shot ;) but I've missed the exif...
...checked right now!

wow ! So fast :D
Do you use to set the camera to B pose and then shot the flash manually?

Nice^^ A proper flash is exactly what you need for this kind of photography!
Smoke photography is also very nice and has many opportunities in post processing with photoshop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld_ervQfKyM (Maybe you know DigitalRev TV already, if you don't I highly recommend it because they are hilarious^^)

Yeah the main failing of the whole session i did tonight was bad lighting and inexperience with the flash gun that my friend lent to me, also with the lack of a users guide and it being the first time using a flash gun it was sort of interesting to learn :)

Haha, I see^^
This kind of experimentation is examtly why I want to get a DSLR myself in the first place. I took some test shots with a D3200 lately and I have never felt so creative before! I'm probably gonna settle for the D3100 though. I just don't need 24 megapixels and the D3100 seems to have better noise performance because of the lower pixelcount.

i would really suggest you backlight these

I had that thought at first, but don't own enough lamps or the right lamps to do it, plus how i had this set up was one of my picture boards leaning against a small drawer unit.

If i hadn't burnt out my LED lamp on a flexible arm that would have come in useful, oh well .. these are the tips that you pick up as you go along

Keep experimenting! I've learned to use secondary illumination with tons of shots and without the manual
Which model of flash gun you've used?

Thanks :) i'll certainly keep experimenting but i'll read some more theory into photography and different techniques. You see i've been comfortable with landscapes for while, those are nice and easy .. get the composition and sky/ground mix right, hold the camera steady and keep the horizon level and all is normally well.

But with these more highly technical shots, i fail at them because of lack of experience hehe, but the flash gun i borrowed is a Canon Speedlite 430ex II which means not much to me, the basics of it are .. switch on .. press shutter and "oh bright light!" but i'll learn.

Thanks again

:D I've the same flash! It's a bit slow for this technique...
Anyway (this afternoon ^^) I've found a page reporting the light duration at different power ex.: @1/32 it reaches 1/4760 secs, I need to take some shots!!
http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~toomas.....e/regular.html

Yup :) i need to learn the theory of photography before doing anything else, i think i'm going to start from scratch and read up about all the different settings on my camera and all the different theories ..then take pictures at each setting so i can learn the histogram stuff too.

I should be able to relearn alot of stuff pretty fast, but its not just the technique its also the equipment so next time i decide to try something new like this i'll think about what i'll need before rushing into it. However some of the results were pretty interesting, but your right about this flash gun .. it is rather slow and without the manual i was flying by instruments only!

Thanks for the tip and continued comments *wags*

You're welcome!
I'll make sure to take a look at your shots ;3