I had not been photographing anything experimental for a long time. Friday, when I got home and took a glass of water something hit me in form of an idea about trying to capture water.
I fetched my the camera and stand, quickly built a set from water tap and a blue Iittala Kartio-glass and started to shoot away. Results were quite interesting
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As it is not good to start browsing the pictures still in the camera I mainly focused to the photography it self. After a half an hour and about 20 shots later I ran the images trough post processing. I took the idea of freezing liquids a bit further and started to think about for example running white coloured liquids trough some kind of a system and then colouring the liquid with flashes. The result would look something like green, red and e.g. blue shapes formed by freezed liquid in motion.
Ofcourse, there is hundreds and hundreds of websites available, from which you can get ideas and read about techniques. Grab yourself a mug of tee or smthng and take a look at these sites:
High Speed and Photoinstrumentation Photographs – Exhibit 3
Mike’s guide to easy high speed photography