My Milk Drop Photos

[Sketch]

I did some of that back in college Eskimo and used milk as well as a bunch of other liquids.  I have a poster I made for an art show, I should get a photo of it and post it up.  I used a hi-speed as well, but was a film and went about  60 fps or so I believe, has been a while.  I used a black backdrop with white milk bing illuminated by a light under a bowl that we had it in and did it in the dark room at my college for art.  Looked pretty cool... Hence the handle "Sketch"

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Sketch
I did some of that back in college Eskimo and used milk as well as a bunch of other liquids.  I have a poster I made for an art show, I should get a photo of it and post it up.  I used a hi-speed as well, but was a film and went about  60 fps or so I believe, has been a while.  I used a black backdrop with white milk bing illuminated by a light under a bowl that we had it in and did it in the dark room at my college for art.  Looked pretty cool... Hence the handle "Sketch"

Here's some stuff that i did in college:

Exploding Potato


Exploding Spam

[Debonair]

Here is a short clip of Harold Edgerton's milk drop routine
http://web.mit.edu/vrtour/movies/n2_edgerton_mv.mov

and the famous photo to compare with


Edgerton's pregame show


and a ton more stuff, including a long site on Edgerton in WWII if you search
"Harold Edgerton" site:mit.edu

looks like maybe he used skim...:aokmilk dudz:aokOWNZ:aok

[FiLtH]

Nice!! Thats really cool!!

   One question though..that small glass of milk...are you sure you milked the cow?

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Debonair
Here is a short clip of Harold Edgerton's milk drop routine
http://web.mit.edu/vrtour/movies/n2_edgerton_mv.mov

and the famous photo to compare with


Edgerton's pregame show


and a ton more stuff, including a long site on Edgerton in WWII if you search
"Harold Edgerton" site:mit.edu

looks like maybe he used skim...:aokmilk dudz:aokOWNZ:aok

Edgerton is my hero; I love that guy.  I researched his work in college.  In photography class we had to research a famous photographer and emulate his work.  I chose Edgerton, hence the exploding Spam.

[ramzey]

Originally posted by Sandman
Looks more like white balance issues... but they're still cool, IMHO.

of course pictures are cool, but more light would work better
WB is about light temperature not about lack of it

[Sandman]

Originally posted by ramzey
of course pictures are cool, but more light would work better
WB is about light temperature not about lack of it

Exactly.

[Debonair]

there bettar than ur photos, nurds
maybe ripsnort will come&fix them:lol:lol:lol:rofl


Harold Edgerton worked on night time aerial photography in the second world war

photo of Normandy night of June 5-6, 1944


kewl photo of stonehenge illuminated by his flying flashbulb when he was doing some experiments

it si obvious he was quite an artist as well as being a top engineer

his A-26 with a ~500lbs flash unit installed


the cool thing about pushing the limits of photographic engineering is you alwasy get to be the first guy to see something nobody ever saw before....

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Debonair
there bettar than ur photos, nurds
maybe ripsnort will come&fix them:lol:lol:lol:rofl

....

Not a chance, this is one of the few BBS's on the intardnet where folks actually hammer you for trying to help out.

[LePaul]

Oh Rip, grow a set, will ya

[aztec]

Slummin again LePaul?

[eagl]

Pretty cool eskimo.

Interesting comment about light intensity and white balance.  Even with not enough illumination, proper white balance settings should have resulted in a white background since your backdrop was in fact white.  Your camera may have been fighting you a bit there, expecting something *other* than a pure white background during normal use so it adjusted way off trying to compensate.

Shooting in raw format and picking or adjusting color balance in post processing might be easier than fighting the camera settings to get a good in-camera processed result.  Even though I'm very rapidly filling up my hard drive with huge images that are mostly crap (I don't cull very well), I shoot almost exclusively in raw+basic jpg mode with my nikon D50.

[eskimo2]

I’ve yet to play with RAW, I should try it.  Even though my Nikon isn’t an SLR it will shoot RAW in many settings.  I’ll have to see if any of my software can handle RAW.  The “continuous mode” only shoots normal-jpg, but I/we (my wife and I) shot many stills that could have been RAW.  She was better at getting the timing right; I kept leading too much and shot a bit early most often.  Anyway, my Nikon usually has near perfect exposure and color, but I messed around with things a bit and tried to keep the shutter near 1/1000th second.  I also used the old 1960’s home movie lights for the continuous mode series.  The color was way off on those, these pictures were tweaked quite a bit to get the milk closer to white.  On my first set I only used the camera’s flash; the colors were much better but I was limited to one picture per drop of milk.  

I also regret not using a fresh glass of milk on each picture; that little mug only holds an ounce.  Next time I’ll know better.

[Ripsnort]

RAW: Good for still subjects. Not so good for action photography.

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
RAW: Good for still subjects. Not so good for action photography.

I know nothing about RAW.  Why?