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Exhibition of High Speed Photography

Posted by michael on from the phun-with-photogates dept.

Dantastic writes: "If high-speed projectiles, breaking glass, and hot plates sound like fun, check out this site." No news here, just some really nice photographs. I didn't realize a tennis ball deformed that much.

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  1. Harold Edgerton by rackrent · · Score: 5, Informative

    What always impresses me about these pictures is remembering the guy, Harold Edgerton, who came up with this technology as well as side scan sonar. What a guy.

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    --- There is a man in a smiling bag.
  2. In case it gets totally slashdotted. by helixblue · · Score: 4, Informative
    I made a hopefully complete mirror of the subdirectory at:

    http://profile.sh/high_speed_photos/

    I've only got 50K/s outgoing, so I'm sure I'll get slashdotted too.. but it will at least give *some* people a chance.

  3. This is really quite easy by ravett · · Score: 3, Informative

    I actually took the high speed photography course that these pictures came from while I was in high school (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics).

    It's really amazing how easy taking most of these pictures is. All you need is a camera that can be held open indefinitely, a flash unit that can be triggered externally, and a whole bunch of black cloth. That and a soldering iron :)

    Unfortunately my work wasn't cool enough to make the show. I guess Dr. Winters didn't like apples being hit by arrows. It makes lots of apple sauce really fast though...

  4. It's not hard to make things like this by tap · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't need special equipment, just a camera with a flash. It does help to have a SLR though. I did this back in HS for my final project in photography class. I had a water baloon exploding, a hatchet smashing a lightbulb, milk drop in a bowl, and a ice cube splashing into a glass.

    The hardest part was figuring out how to trigger the events remotely, since I didn't have a helper. I just needed to take a dozen pictures of each thing to get a few that turned out well. I would take one that was early, like an ice cube just above the glass, and then a better one where the ice cube was in the glass and water was splashing out to make a sequence. You can't tell that it's not the same ice cube.