…on fire slow mo flying liquids. Filmed at 2500fps
Category Archives: photography
Just a Moment While I Get the Parlor Set Up
Enjoy a hypnotic time-lapse video of a spider weaving its circular web
(also check out the video under the article body. It’s frikkin’ hilarious)
It's a Small World Once Again
11 Unbelievable Microscopic Images From Nikon’s 2012 Small World Competition
It’s a slideshow, but the images are cool.
I Am So Tempted to Try This at Home
… but I won’t, if only because I don’t have a slo-mo camera as good as the one these guys have (it’s at 2500fps with a Phantom Flex).
Silent Night
Did you catch everything? There were noctilucent clouds, halos, moondogs, and a brief lunar corona.
But my favorite is the phenomenal oncoming storm starting three minutes in.
Shedding Some Light on the Subject
I’ve had this mad idea of tracing entire rooms with one LED and now I have finally gotten started!
This is Not an Energy Drink
This is how you fill a water bottle with fire
This is a quick experiment that you can do at home. By that, I mean it is physically possible to do at home, not that it is actually a good idea to do at home. Yes, even if you do promise not to sue.
Sounds like something to do in the back yard at the next family gathering.
Long Exposure Fireworks
Unusual Long Exposure Firework Photographs by David Johnson
The technique I used was a simple refocus during the long exposure. Each shot was about a second long, sometimes two. I’d start out of focus, and when I heard the explosion I would quickly refocus, so the little stems on these deep sea creature lookalikes would grow into a fine point. The shapes are quite bizarre, some of them I was pleasantly surprised with.
… And I can't Do a Thing With It
We found a bunch of awesome bald men and hurled water balloons at their heads, to capture the explosion of water at various intervals. The result a new head of of water hair! We used a laser and sound trigger to capture the right moments for each subject to create just the head of hair that fit best with the face.
Olympic Dioramas
Tilt-Shift Photography From The London 2012 Summer Olympics
Several photographers at the London 2012 Summer Olympics captured events in tilt-shift, a photography trick that makes the subjects look like miniatures.