Gavin Photography » High Speed Photography http://www.gavinphotography.com/blog Gavin Holt Wedding Photography in Los Angeles and Orange County Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:15:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Milk Drop Photography http://www.gavinphotography.com/blog/2009/04/23/milk-drop-photography/ http://www.gavinphotography.com/blog/2009/04/23/milk-drop-photography/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:36:42 +0000 Gavin http://www.gavinphotography.com/blog/?p=1661 I’ve been experimenting with high speed photography, specifically with liquids such as milk.  Actually I used half and half, since it is more viscous.  I had to actually build a circuit board to ensure the right moment is captured, such as when the milk drop “crowns.”  Check out the results:

milk on milk

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add some chocolate milk and you get …

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No this is not a marble.  Liquids don’t make a teardrop shape without friction, so the viscous surface retains a spherical shape.

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This is the “crowning” I was talking about

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And here is the board I built, using a Hi-Viz optical kit.  One gray wire goes to the optical trigger, while the other goes to my strobe.

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Now I have to go clean my kitchen before Judy kills me; it has rainbow splashes all over!

Oh yeah, strobist info: 580ex sync’d to the circuitboard at 1/128 power.  camera at iso400, f14, shutter on bulb varying from 2′ to 4′

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