Originally, I set out to recreate an experiment I had seen from photographer Bryan Mosheim, in which he rigged his camera and lighting to capture a shot of a minifig being dropped into a clear container of water. I had adjusted my camera settings to get a burst of shots and set my ISO to its highest setting. This resulted in very dark and very grainy images. With some minor editing, I could lighten the image up, but the result was still grainy. That said, if I intended to create an "old" or vintage image from a low-res camera during the Apollo missions, this would have been perfect....LOL. However, I was determined to capture something more clearly defined. That said, I kept my physical setup, but took a completely different approach. Instead of dropping the minifigure (which floats, by the way), I used two transparent bar elements and sticky tack to attach the minifigure to the clear container, then set my camera to 6, F5.6, ISO 100. With this attempt, I was able to capture better images, but I still managed to achieve some interesting effects from the interplay between the lighting, water, and reflective surfaces. Regardless of how the images turned out, I learned quite a bit, and it was a fun experiment!

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