11 Unbelievable Microscopic Images From Nikon’s 2012 Small World Competition
It’s a slideshow, but the images are cool.
Category Archives: Photos
No Bones About It
Skeleton light sculptures
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!
Welcome to Tranquility
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.
That's Buzz, not Neil, and other Picture Trivia
Keep in mind as you put together your Neil Armstrong packages tonight…
In fact, if you’re hoping to use a picture of Armstrong on the moon tonight: Rots of Ruck to you. Armstrong and Aldrin only walked on the moon for about two-and-a-half hours that night in 1969. Most of the time, Armstrong carried the primary camera. Aldrin carried a camera but was assigned to shoot specific, technical things.
The result: Lots of pictures of Aldrin. But hardly any of Neil.
… 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.
I'd Hate Love to Burst Your Bubble
Iridient: Bursting Soap Bubbles
Captured with High Speed Flash Units, the images show soap bubbles in the moment of bursting.
Snell's Window on the Olympics
I did a bit on Snell’s Window last summer, and you can see that effect quite clearly in photos 1 and 8. If you look carefully at photo #6, you can see the edge of the window at the top of the shot. Below that there is the total internal reflection, which is quite obvious with the first two swimmers. Now imagine you’re a predatory fish, and your target is swimming away from you and approaches the surface — he would see another fish come into view — the reflection, and if the fish then breached the water it would disappear completely, except for any glimpses possible from the disruption of the surface.