描述
This project was inspired by Harold Edgerton (1903-1990), an American scientist, researcher, and professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For this series of images, we used a photogate trigger that would activate a flash which had a duration of 1/12,800 seconds. The drop of water with black paint breaks the infrared beam, triggering the flash when it falls from the dropper to the plate. The height between the dropper and the plate was 41 cm. so we had to calculate delay intervals to get the best possible images.
We noticed that delay increments of 2.5 milliseconds worked, so we did a series beginning at 200 milliseconds and finishing at 357.5 milliseconds.
The camera had a shutter speed of 4 seconds, and an aperture of f32 with ISO 1600.
To create the animation, a total of 44 pictures were taken and put together to form this sequence. If we add together the exposure time of all the photos we can conclude that these images encompass only 11/3,200 of a second.