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A convective drying experiment by John M. Anderson in a cell culture dish prepared for containing droplets of Kc167 cells (Drosophila melanogaster) prepared in growth media supplemented with 200mM trehalose in the Life Sciences building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
Insect and droplets on a web .... notice the upside-down sky in the large drop!
Best seen in Large Size!
This is my first attempt at shooting splashing droplets. I know they look silly next to the work of masters like keithtrueman (i.e., The Jellyfish, or this), or Cymaii (Splashes) but it definitely got me excited. I shot about 150 shots to get these four pics. Next time I'll try to drop the water from higher up and take more like 400 shots.
The main motivation behind this was to play with my new remote camera/flash triggers, and I would say I'm pretty happy with them.
Clockwise from top left you see a tower, a crown, a carousel formed by a collision of a rising tower with a second droplet (at an angle) and a head-on tower-droplet collision. The color is due to the flower pot forming the water pool and the whole setup was in my bathtub!!! Good thing my wife was out of the house :-)
Next step, buy some food coloring and make a complete mess out of the bathroom.
An experiment by John M. Anderson with a cell culture dish containing dried droplets of Kc167 cells (Drosophila melanogaster) suspended in growth media supplemented with 200mM trehalose in the Life Sciences building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
I photographed Water droplets falling from a facet into a variety of colored plates and pans. The depth of the water the drop falls into as well as the size /mass of the drop and its speed determines what happens. If the drop hits a hard surface and has enough speed then you get that really cool crown effect. The crown forms and disappears in i am guessing a couple hundredths of a second, so capturing it, without special equipment is pretty much pure luck. If the water the drop fall into has a little depth then you get an impact crater followed by a rebound column. When drops from the column fall back they will flatten like pancakes before they break the surface tension of the water they fall onto. There are examples of all of these in this album. To capture the photos I used my cameras flash set to its Highest sync speed of 1/200 th of a second. i also have an external flash that I used to get more contrasty light and dark areas.
I hope you enjoy this album, I had a lot of fun making it.
An experiment by John M. Anderson with a cell culture dish containing dried droplets of Kc167 cells (Drosophila melanogaster) suspended in growth media supplemented with 200mM trehalose in the Life Sciences building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
A convective drying experiment by John M. Anderson in a cell culture dish prepared for containing droplets of Kc167 cells (Drosophila melanogaster) prepared in growth media supplemented with 200mM trehalose in the Life Sciences building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
Explored #163
Try as I may I have no success with focus and buttercups, yellow is a toughie, but at least I can capture a droplet!
I had planned to go out and take some images the morning I took this shot. Before I went out I had a few chores to do including fixing a broken item with Super Glue. As I carefully went about my business I squeezed the super glue into the bottom of a narrow metal tube. I then carefully placed the second item into the tube. Sadly, due to the fiddly nature of the work I lost grip of the second part and it dropped into the tube. The super glue shot out of the tube and straight into my right eye.
Within a split second my eye was stinging with pain and I could not open it. After swearing prefusely and panicing a little I was off to A&E. After several hours in A&E I was discharged and sent home. The first thing I wanted to do was test my eye out.......... So I set up some Macro still life...... perfect test.
I hadn't planned anything and the images were taken just to test my eye, they were not meant to be masterpieces, but this is what came of the short session.
My eye is still blurred as I write and upload, but have been told no damage was done....... other than to my pride and my plans to get some new landscape shots.
Strobist info:
Nikon D90 with Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 @f5.6
1x Nikon Speedlight SB25 to the left at 1/32 power
Subject in a light tent
Cactus V4 radio trigger
Early in Sunday's sunset, I couldn't help but notice the raindrops sparkling on the fence...now if only there were some cows in the field...
I like the giant droplets of water on this giant leaf. If there was only a giant peach, then we'd really be in business.
Year 3, Day 308