Transient Cup

WaW!!! what a pic !!! So nicely executed... everything is perfect... thanks a lot for sharing. 7 from me.

What a series of photographs of excellence! Simply marvelous!

Perfect!

Outstanding. 

Seven for this one!

Best regards Brian!

PDE

A very impressive beautiful result, Brian!

With best regards,

Ruud.

Great work! (7)

Excellent captures!!

Clearly one of the best "drop" pictures I have ever seen! Stunning.

An extraordinary capture.  I can only echo the views of earlier commentators.

Thanks for all your positive comments.

Best regards

Brian

Hej Brian!

Det er godt nok fantastisk!

kh Mikael Togeby

Hej Mikael

Tak for din kommentar. Hyggeligt at "møde" dig på photo.net.

Kh. Brian

This photo is excellent. The splash really does resemble a cup. Excellent timing. I love the contrast between the white liquid (milk?) and the black background.  -- Janice

Mmmm... so good!

this is a fine shot ! how many attempts did it take to get just right ? x

I did not count the number of attempts, but 40-50 I think.

Best regards

Brian

Very impressive capture. Congratulations!

Brian,

This is beautiful.  When I was in high school I read about the experiments on strobe photography by Harold Edgerton and his work looked like magic.  Your works remind me much of the liquid stopping images he created.  This is my favorite.  I am going to add it to my list of favorites.

Regards, 

Jerry

Hi Julie and Jerry

Thank you for your comments.

To Jerry: I am a great admirer of Harold Edgerton's strobe photography, too.  

Best regards

Brian

Great capture. And really meta too! A picture of a drop into a cup, forming exactly the same thing!

Did you drop a marble or something similar to get this effect?

Thank you for your comments. I did not drop a marble. The image is made of three drops of milk. The first forms the column, the second the cup and the third is on it way.

Best regards

Brian 

i keep coming back to this image.....i would love to know the ins and outs of how you achieved it? but maybe you want to keep this a tight knit secret, which would be understandable. Either way, it really is a brilliant MACRO, and in my honest opinion, I think it deserved a place on the winners list for the recent contest - I think it better then the one which came first xxx

Thank you for your comment and your kind words.

What are the ins and outs of how I make my drop images?

When I make a high speed shot the exposure time is set by the flash, not by the camera. The flash is set to 1/128 of the normal output. That gives a very short flash duration around 1/40.000 sec. I take the picture in a dark room. The exposure time is set to 2 sec on the camera, but the exposure period is set by the flash. The result is that the drops af milk are frozen. I use a trigger system to trigger the camera and the flash at the right time.

The rest is just a lot of patience.

Best regards

Brian