mjc925 Loc: SF Bay Area

Another wet t-shirt from a recent shoot. My flash knowledge is not huge, but does anyone know if you can use 2nd Curtain Synch while using non-TTL strobes, I liked this shoot, but really dislike the effect on the raindrops using the strobes. I set my camera to 2nd Curtain, but obviously that would be too simple a fix. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks.

toxdoc42

I have used that setting in order to show some movement and freeze others. I love this version more than the previous. There is something about black and white, particularly in figure studies, that adds sensuality and detail. Please post a downloadable image, we can better see the "talk drops" in that. Were they really taking n drops, or artificial.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Great image!!
However the model looks a bit crowded by the frame

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Beautiful photos mjc925... reminds one of random happenings with sudden showers ... in home and outside. The fabric, wet, did not dissolve but became very lens friendly... What we sort of see is at time more spicy. Polyvinyl Alcohol thread can be woven into fabric, but it dissolves in water, making it useful for some crafts... perhaps even photography like your fascinating shot.

There is always great wet T Shirt contest.. ya gotta love them.

"There was a famous Hoax reported by Webb Miller (1891-1940). He was an American journalist best known for his war reporting. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1922 and 1927. However, he also made a small contribution to the study of hoaxes." The story:

"In Paris I encountered an unusual illustration of the necessity of checking carefully even insignificant stories. My friend Bartley Grierson (this name is fictitious) obtained from a source he thought to be reliable a story about remarkable house parties given by a British millionaire on the French Riviera. According to information Grierson received, a new synthetic fabric had been discovered which instantly dissolved upon contact with salt water. The millionaire had a number of women's bathing suits made from the fabric. When he gave a party, he always suggested a swim in the Mediterranean and provided the suits for his women guests. The moment they entered the water, according to the story, their suits disappeared."
http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/the_dissolving_bathing_suit_hoax_of_1930[/quote]

melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country

In my years at Woods Hole, I used PVA tape to protect delicate instruments, knowing it would vanish soon as they were submerged. I daydreamed of making raincoats--or condoms.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

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Did you mean poly vinyl acetate? Same stuff as white glue.

melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country

No; polyvinyl alcohol is a clear plastic.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Great shot! I really like this water technique that you are using.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

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Stephan G

Just a quibble. Liquid polyvinyl alcohol is a very slippery material. A fellow lab worker back in the days when it was the base for television cathode ray tubes (aka TV tubes) broke his leg trying to stop a leaning vat full of it. It was slicker than sheet ice.

melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country

And does it polymerize? I am going by how it was labeled at the time.
EDIT: Here is a quote from Wikipedia: . It is commonly supplied as beads or as solutions in water.

Stephan G

It is an Organic Polymer. In TV color tubes, it was used to coat/bond phosphorus (red, green, blue) onto the inside of the CRTs. It is not really soluble in water. It is dispersed in water, using the water as a "carrier". (A colloid)

mjc925 Loc: SF Bay Area

You all do realize there is a beautiful young woman wearing a wet, see through white t-shirt at the top of this thread right?..... Just checking!

PaulW128 Loc: Long Island, NY