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For this week's Macro Monday's theme "Blues" I used my favorite and challenging technique of high speed macro of paint stimulated by a subwoofer.
...or just a dome and roof window inside a Fashion department store
It is a pure photograph with tonal values processed in Lightroom and a few retouched ceiling lights
Building of the abandoned steam engine of former Cotton Mill Oberwaltersdorf (founded 1852) / Lower Austria
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The shot is created by bouncing paint off a subwoofer while syncing the camera shutter, flashes and subwoofer together down to the millisecond.
A leftover from an ancient robot war.
Built for the Bio-Cup 2020
Theme: canine
Based off artwork by Nikki Lemon
Thank you very very much to buttloaf for editing this at 1AM!
And here's a crappy pic with better lighting so you can see more details
This image is achieved by placing paint on a subwoofer and coordinating camera and flashes with an audio signal blasted through the subwoofer making the paint explode for a unique capture.
To create this photo, I placed a few drops of brightly colored paint onto a large speaker / subwoofer. Playing a loud noise through the speaker causes the paint to "dance", and makes very interesting, organic looking shapes. (I covered the speaker with a black plastic garbage bag to protect the speaker, and to give a nice shiny surface for the photo.)
To create the sound, I used a frequency generator app on a mobile phone, and connected it to the speaker. (A short burst at ~80Hz seemed to work reasonably well.) To freeze the motion, I set up a sound trigger that would trigger the off-camera flash when it heard the loud noise from the speaker. Since the flash is very short in duration (~1/5,000s), and since that was the only light in the room, it freezes the motion near perfectly.
After everything was set up, I just tried it a bunch of time until I got a shape that I liked. You have to clean up and re-create the paint drops after every couple of attempts, as the paint colors will mix after the first shot or two.
I had a pair of 12" JL Audio 12W3v3 subwoofers installed on Saturday. I've also written a related blog entry on the new gear.
[6:27 p.m. / 10 second exposure]
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Thought I'd make an effort today!
Paint and glitter bouncing around on a subwoofer. I've done this before on a black background which is waaay easier than white. My lights are all wrong and I need to have a longer play. Once I introduced the glitter on the white latex stretched over the speaker it was game over! I just couldn't get the bloody stuff off. Not wanting to ruin another pair of underpants I called it a day :)
Strobism: 3 x YN560IV's. One in a 24" softbox to the rear 1/32 @ 24mm. This was the most troublesome to get the lighting right. One each either side of the paint 1/64 @ 24mm. All wrapped up in cling film for obvious reasons!
This shot is created by bouncing paint off a subwoofer while syncing the camera shutter, flashes and subwoofer together down to the millisecond.
View from behind of the Wharfedale SW 150 subwoofer. Taken specifically for the Crazy Tuesday July 2023 theme "From The Other Side". The sound is actually pretty amazing!
Questa sera, 12 giugno 2009, nell'ambito delle manifestazioni uffciali per il Roma Pride 09, si terrà la mostra WONDERBEARS! cui hanno partecipato alcuni amici che trovate qui su flickr. Se siete a Roma venite alla Galleria de'Serpenti, in via dei Serpenti 32, questa sera dalle 23 in poi, per il Subwoofer - speciale Wonderbears!
This evening come to the exhibit and party "Wonderbears", one of the many events of this year's Roma Pride. The photographers are flickr's friends!
Sound generated shot.. Milk on a subwoofer, colored on computer..
Highest explore: #49
Sony A100
Sony 18-70mm @ 70mm
ISO 100 - f13 - 1/1600s
Strobist: Sony FVL-42, Wireless, Left front, 1/2 Power
Inspired by photoboothguy
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Here, in this photo, with my hand holding down the speaker cabinet cover, you can see the exposed 3.5" Midrange/Tweeter, and the 8" Subwoofer, and the port below it. Very nice speakers, with a very broad frequency response. Built in 1975.
Sound generated shot.. Without trigger.. Milk on a subwoofer, similar to my last attempt, but this time with two flashes..
The main 'issue' of the last shot, the missing light on the right part could be solved with a second flash and also the darker green food coloring looks better..
Due to the second flash I could also increase the sharpness of the sculptures.. But I'm still unhappy with the milk at the bottom in the foreground.. This should go sharper.. Maybe I've to go even further in the direction of f/20 or f/22 to get a greater DOF.. But this would require more light.. (Both flashes full power?)
I'm thankful for any advises in this direction..
Highest position: #391
Sony A100
Sony 18-70mm @ 60mm
ISO 100 - f14 - 1/1600s
Strobist: Sony FVL-42, Wireless, 4 o'clock, 1/2 Power
Strobist: Sony FVL-42, Wireless, 8 o'clock, 1/2 Power
Setup may be found here
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January 2010 no-theme contest winner at "Get Creative on Flickr"
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This is the shape I was looking for, very hard to synchronize.
It's a combination of sound generated drops like this and collision like this.
The subwoofer vibration generates the "pillar", then another drop collides on top of it forming the "hat".
Too bad the flash got bad synch in this one, you can see some ghosting, mouse over the image.
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Esta é a forma que eu estava procurando, super difÃcil de sincronizar.
É uma combinação de gotas geradas por som como esta e uma colisão como esta.
A vibração de um subwoofer cria o "pilar", daà outra gota colide em cima dele formando o "chapéu".
A má notÃcia é que deu um problema de sincronização de flash nessa, dá pra ver os fantasmas, passe com o mouse em cima da foto.
The shot is created by bouncing paint off a subwoofer while syncing the camera shutter, flashes and subwoofer together down to the millisecond.
2 12" Kenwood hooked up to a 600 watt amp, sounds quite good. At the radio around 1/2 way, it shakes the windows of nearly everything within 50 feet of it. After they break in, there's gonna be a whole new world of loud ;)
It took me years to find out this place exists, and it took me a couple more years to finally come to terms with where it was and go there. It's in East Portland, a trashy place I highly condemn, the scarier part of town. I hate it.
Attempting to conceal my camera as best as I could and without a bag, I was looking over my shoulder constantly as I was walking here. Hopscotch is a light exhibit that has characteristics in it's installments mirroring Meow Wolf and Teamlab (it's only now dawning on me how often I visit these kind of places).
This room mirrors a glass orb room from Teamlab Azabudai (that I have yet to upload). An infinity room with programmed light sequences, and the loudest subwoofers I've heard in a long time. It's impossible to not touch the lights as you walk through it so I was able to get a bit more of an improvisational shot. I got close to the mirror and then laid down to get an upward shot, changing my focus to the closest light and let the other lights fade into the distance to make the effect stronger. Also figured it would be appropriate for the 100th shot in my 2025 album.
But the closest light had a problem, it had a strange outline around it that makes it look like it was photoshopped in. So in editing I had to compromise it's sharpness to make the edges blurry and lighter (I also didn't want to go heavy on the saturation, I've been doing that a lot lately).
Truth be told this place was actually pretty good. Maybe not as good as contenders due to budget but still delivers. The only primary issue is it's location. Be safe if you plan to go.
Sound generated shot.. Without trigger.. Milk on a subwoofer, similar to my last attempt with two flashes.. Colored with food coloring..
Most likely the last one of this series..
I'm happy with the result, the overall sharpness is higher due to the adjusted aperture (F18)..
Highest position: #149
Sony A100
Sony 100mm @ 100mm
ISO 100 - f18 - 1/1600s
Strobist: Sony FVL-42, Wireless, 4 o'clock, Full Power
Strobist: Sony FVL-42, Wireless, 8 o'clock, Full Power
Setup may be found here
More images on my website