Tips & Tricks to Photograph Water Splash with Your Phone

Photographing with water is a great place to start. This is a broad area of photography which have lots of creative possibilities. It's trully amazing how a simple smartphone can freeze things in action and make it looks like the time stopped for a span of milliseconds.

In this article, you’ll see a selection of ideas for water splash photography, and how you can try those out yourself. Let us have some fun splash-splash people!

1. Time your photo based on light

As with all types of photography, light is incredibly important. If you want to capture the reflective nature of water, then the right light is absolutely essential. The best times to shoot water are both when the glare of the sun is not too strong (sunrise or sunset) and when it's too strong, this can make some crytal glow with the water.

2. Adjusting Shutter Speed (Do Burst shot)

It is indeed tiring to repeat throwing something on the water to make some splash and not capturing the right time of the bomb splash! You don't have to be exhausted.

While this can normally only be adjusted on cameras (i.e. devices whose sole function is to photograph), there are several apps that allow you to speed up or slow down the shutter speed. If you want to capture waves crashing on the beach or water splashes with razor sharp precision, then you need to increase your shutter speed and decrease your exposure time. With a fast shutter speed, you can be sure to catch even the tiniest droplets of water being launched into the air.

3. Freezing the splash

You have probably already captured photos where you stopped an animal or human in motion. It may be accidentally, but you still did it. When using your phone's camera, it may have the normal not speedy shutter and you don't know yet how to adjust it, that's okay!

• TRY THIS: You may try holding a water hose with water continuoisly flowing. You may press it and make some splash in the air. With it continuously flowing and dancing on the air, you may simply capture it with your phone. Just see to it that it is focused on the water splash, not on the background.

4. Do not use flash

With flash you can create a “hot spot” on the water, which reflects in your pictures and can ruin your shot. Also, this may change the focus of the camera that you have set beforehand.

5. Post-process (Editing)

This part is crucial yet very important! Despite of the efforts you have made to capture the perfect splash, the raw images you get definitely still need some processing and polishing. As for me, I only use Adobe Lightroom for post-processing, but you can achieve your desired photo in any editing application you're comfortable with.

• You can check out an example of my editing process here

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN! You may want to try taking splash pics. Post an article of your work and tag me 😊

Anyways, I hope this helps. Especially for @Telesfor and @Saif6878 who are curious and ready to learn about capturing splashes by just using a mobile phone that I posted recently (link). I hope I answered your questions and I hope you'll be able to do this too!

KEEP ON BEING CURIOUS, LEARNING NEW THINGS IS FUN!

You may comment down below what kind of photography or tips you want me to share with you. Let's spread love and positivity y'all ❤️❤️❤️