Sweets refracted in water droplets (2)

I've been looking through my macro photos and realised it's quite a while since I did any indoor experimenting. Here's one from last year. I posted a version of this on the 20th Feb last year - that one had a much greater depth of field, so that the sweets in the background could be clearly made out. In this one, you have to look into the water droplets to clearly see the sweets.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/8, 1/200s, 90mm, LED ring light, tripod, cable release.

Sweets refracted in water droplets

This is another idea I got from my macro magazine. I like doing things like this - it reminds me of science experiments at school!

On my first attempt, the water droplets were bigger and you could only see one or two sweets in each one. Making them smaller increased the number of sweets refracted. Once I had the water droplets right and sharply in focus, I took several pictures with different apertures to get the different depth of field effects. This is the image with the greatest depth of field (so you can see the sweets themselves as well as the water droplets).

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/40, 1/200s, 90mm, in-camera flash, tripod.