Wilson- wrote:
That's a huge compliment....The .22 caliber image in free space with the wake from Doc Edgerton's work is very cool. Thanks!
I don't want to hijack this thread but I grew up under 4 of Doc's original strobes flashing in the top of the courthouse in his/my home town of Aurora, NE. (Now home of the Edgerton Explorit Center). He did a presentation I was fortunate enough to attend years ago. My avatar is how I remember him looking. Most photos of Doc are in his younger years.
Your image and your engineering of the switch is completely in his style.
Ken Tanaka wrote:
This certainly looks to be the action shot of the week, Wilson. The late Harold Edgerton would be delighted with this image. (He broke a lot of stuff in his career.)
This shot has good stopping power. Really well done.
thanks Ken for the comments and link. Tom Basore also mentioned Doc Edgerton and I've been doing a little research... I'm learning more than I had anticipated with this WA... very cool... I'm very interested in doing some more of this work. I want to break a hot bulb with a drop of cold water.... I think that would be very cool. Thanks again and I'm happy to follow in great footsteps. I've actually been looking at building a sound and motion trigger system. The schematics are public domain and they don't look too difficult. I like building electronic stuff so who knows.... I just need to quit my daytime job so I can play..
Can't help echoing all the mentions of Harold Edgerton, but I also want to praise you for your cleverness and persistence, which gave you such a great result!
Tom Basore wrote:
I don't want to hijack this thread but I grew up under 4 of Doc's original strobes flashing in the top of the courthouse in his/my home town of Aurora, NE. (Now home of the Edgerton Explorit Center). He did a presentation I was fortunate enough to attend years ago. My avatar is how I remember him looking. Most photos of Doc are in his younger years.
Your image and your engineering of the switch is completely in his style.
That's very interesting, Tom. Amazing how small the world is and the people you meet. I've always been a 90% horse sense and a 10% technical person and it's gotten me pretty far. Sounds like Doc had a similar approach to his work and experimentation. Go ahead, hijack the thread, this is way too cool. Was the presentation pretty down to earth and entertaining? Just wondering. Thanks for starting all this interesting discussion.
Photon wrote:
Can't help echoing all the mentions of Harold Edgerton, but I also want to praise you for your cleverness and persistence, which gave you such a great result!
Jess, thanks for your nice comments. I'm getting more out of this WA than I ever thought I could. I'm glad I started doing this activity...The assignments are fun and the people are wonderful!
Wilson- wrote:
That's very interesting, Tom. Amazing how small the world is and the people you meet. I've always been a 90% horse sense and a 10% technical person and it's gotten me pretty far. Sounds like Doc had a similar approach to his work and experimentation. Go ahead, hijack the thread, this is way too cool. Was the presentation pretty down to earth and entertaining? Just wondering. Thanks for starting all this interesting discussion.
The presentation was geared toward school kids. It was an explanation of an exhibit designed by Edgerton called The Edgerton Water Piddler. Two steady streams of colored water are pumped through tubing. A strobe is placed over looking the streams. the strobe is connected to a switch which will increase and decrease the speed of the strobe. The result is the appearance of individual water drops suspended in the air. If the strobe speed is increased the drops appear to be traveling backward into the tubes. Very cool. Here is a link to the piddler.
On a side note, an original print of the famous photo of the drop of milk with a red background sold last week at auction for $1200. The print was part of the K-Mart corporate art collection. This was a record for an Edgerton print.
Tom Basore wrote:
The presentation was geared toward school kids. It was an explanation of an exhibit designed by Edgerton called The Edgerton Water Piddler. Two steady streams of colored water are pumped through tubing. A strobe is placed over looking the streams. the strobe is connected to a switch which will increase and decrease the speed of the strobe. The result is the appearance of individual water drops suspended in the air. If the strobe speed is increased the drops appear to be traveling backward into the tubes. Very cool. Here is a link to the piddler.
On a side note, an original print of the famous photo of the drop of milk with a red background sold last week at auction for $1200. The print was part of the K-Mart corporate art collection. This was a record for an Edgerton print.
Thanks for that link Tom, I'll have to spend some time tonight looking at it. Sounds like the Piddler would be a good example for kids... and adults... This has been a fun WA and I'll have to send you some other pics as I create them. I think I'm gunna play around with this some. Not sure what the next theme is, but maybe I can make the high-speed photography fit... ha ha...
