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Did anyone else think of The Little Prince when first seeing this picture? Marcus Reugels, whose work we’ve featured previously, doesn’t describe the meaning of his water drop visions, but they are mesmerizing. And working Batman and Spider-Man into the collection was a great idea.
Link -via Geekologie | Artist’s Website
Would you like to take a picture like this one? Evan Sharboneau, also known as the “Photo Extremist”, has a short video tutorial showing how to take high speed photos. The process doesn’t appear to be beyond the reach of a serious amateur.
Link -via My Modern Met
Photo: Cymaii/Flickr
We've seen a few high-speed photography of water drops before on Neatorama, but this one by German photographer Heinz Maier has got us stumped: how in the world did he get a bubble inside of a bubble, with end caps no less?
Colossal has more pics: Link | Don't miss more of Heinz's work on Flickr
German photographer Markus Reugels specializes in high-speed photography, and captures a lot of images of water drops. By adding chemicals to the water and raising his shutter speed to one sixteen thousandth of a second, he’s been able to take some truly amazing shots:
By thickening the water with guar gum he was also able to alter the shape of the splashes, making some of them take on the bizarre look of something from a science-fiction film or a nuclear mushroom cloud.
The shapes, which varied from 3cm to 15cm, were altered even further by adding sugar and, by putting rinse aid in the dish, he was able to increase the height of the droplet splashes.
His images on Flickr are really amazing. You really should check them out.
Article Link and Flickr Photostream via reddit
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Photographer Alain Sailer breaks stuff and takes pictures. Well, that’s probably oversimplifying it a bit. The results of his high speed photography are really gorgeous, so check out his Flickr photostream.
Link via Dude Craft
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Photographer Ryan Taylor uses water balloons and strobe lights to create some amazing pieces of high speed photography. This lovely image was made with skim milk and food coloring.
Link via This Is Colossal
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Edward Horsford takes photographs of water balloons being popped. The results create the impression of water hanging in midair:
“My camera is really the least important part of the shots,” Horsford writes in an e-mail. The trick seems to be in the timing of the flash. He sets a timer on his camera to take a long exposure of 1 to 2 seconds, and if the flash fires within that time, he gets an image. He uses a special gizmo with a microphone that triggers the flashes when it picks up a certain level of sound (i.e., the pop of a balloon).
You can view eleven more photographs at the link.
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Usually, when you say "shoot" to a photographer, he starts snapping with his camera – but be careful when you say that to California-based photographer Alan Sailer. He may just start shooting … with bullets!
A photo shoot usually requires a photographer to just point a camera and snap – but U.S. artist Alan Sailer takes the process much more literally. The California-based photographer, 54, has captured a series of otherwise unassuming items as they explode on contact with a bullet. [...]
An expert at high-speed photography, Mr Sailer takes the pictures in a dark room positioned around 20cm from the target. The camera, which features a unique home-made flash, is set at a one-second delay.
Mr Sailer, who describes the process as ‘beyond dangerous, says: ‘The special item is the flash. It is a home-built unit based on the design of Harold Edgerton*. The flash is about .5 microsecond in duration and runs at 17,000 volts. It is beyond dangerous, it’s deadly.
‘The flash is triggered when the pellet from a rifle travelling at about 200 metres per seconds passes through a laser beam. Its the same principle as those beams that set off a chime when you walk into a store,’ he continues.
‘The camera is set at one second and an f-stop of 9-13 depending on the reflectivity of the subject. The flash stops the action. The one second gives me time to click the camera shutter with one hand while I pull the trigger on the rifle with the other.’
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It’s a question you might find yourself pondering on a wet weekend – why do raindrops come in so many different shapes and sizes? Scientists think they have the answer after filming a single water droplet falling through space with a high-speed camera.
It shows a raindrop starts as a sphere but bursts into a shower of smaller droplets within a few hundredths of a second.
Firstly the drop flattens out into a pancake shape. As the pancake widens and thins, the onrush of air causes it to hollow out, like an upturned bag.
The bag inflates beyond the ability of the water’s tension to hold it together and shatters.
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High speed photography is cool, but this photo of water, spelled out by good ol’ H2O is beyond awesome! It’s done by photographers Norimichi Inoguchi, Shinichi Maruyama and Wayne Wilson of Biwa, Inc.
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