Time & the image; Conclusion

Final shoot

DSLR camera, 3x Tungsten lights, tripod, shallow bowl.

Olive oil, food colouring & red drinking squash (added flour to create a thicker consistency).

Shutter speed 1/125, Aperture F.4.5, ISO 200, WB tungsten, continuous shooting, Manual focusing.

Images that didn't work from shoot

Final A3 image

  

After seeking advice from my peers the series of three was more successful due to the presentation and the other image was considered too busy. 

The images are of a higher quality through the adjustments I've made. Even though the images are not a reflection of what I set out to accomplish (creating the crown) they are successful and even more so as they are unique. The images have captured time through this split second occurrence being captured as frozen movement, I've fulfilled my own brief as well as the unit's. This is certainly not the end of this project as I intend explore this further with different liquids and materials. 

Feedback

• May work better as individual images
• Create a set in different colours
• Upload them to an image library

Images I've previously  uploaded to an image library

http://www.alamy.com/search/imageresults.aspx?CreativeOn=1&qt=miller&search=&all=1&creative=&adv=1&dtfr=&dtTo=&et=0x000000000000000000000&ag=0&vp=0&loc=0&lic=6&lic=1&hc=&selectdate=1&txtdtfr=&txtdtto=&size=0xFF&ot=1&ot=2&ot=4&ot=8&archive=1&chckarchive=1&aqt=&epqt=&oqt=&nqt=#BHM=foo%3Dbar%26st%3D9%26pn%3D1%26ps%3D30%26sortby%3D2%26qt%3Demma%2520miller%26lic%3D3%26mr%3D0%26pr%3D0%26aoa%3D1%26creative%3D%26videos%3D%26nu%3D%26ccc%3D%26bespoke%3D%26apalib%3D%26ag%3D0%26hc%3D%26et%3D0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3D0%26loc%3D0%26ot%3D15%26imgt%3D0%26dtfr%3D%26dtto%3D%26size%3D0xFF%26archive%3D1%26name%3D%26groupid%3D152291%26pseudoid%3D152291%26userid%3D%26id%3D%26a%3D%26cdid%3D%26cdsrt%3D%26cc%3D%26xstx%3D0%26saveQry%3D%26editorial%3D%26nasty%3D%26t%3D0%26edoptin%3D%26customgeoip%3D

Online journal;                                    http://creativelens.co.uk

An article that I found particularly useful; 

                             http://creativelens.co.uk/index.cfm/articles/shooting-for-stock-libraries1/

Time and the image; research and shoots

I found myself being influenced by the cinematic approach to time;

http://youtu.be/FoI18lCV5mw

The dripping tap is used to give the audience a sense of time, in this clip time has been up via the time-lapse technique. It can also be used to highlight a slow motion scenario. I'm going to produce a still image that captures the action of the drip.

Aperture, issue 158, Photography and time, 2000- Flashback; The photography of Dr Harold Eugene Edgerton.

Edgerton used 35mm movie film camera with a synchronised flash

 

My first shoot

DSLR settings; APERTURE- F/4.5,  SHUTTER SPEED-1/125, ISO-800

Equipment; DSLR camera, Tripod, 2x Tungsten lights, Shallow bowl

Out of 300 images this is the only one I found successful. 

Second shoot

The settings were the same except the shutter speed 1/1000.

Water and blue food colouring;

Milk and blue food colouring;

ISO 400, 1/500 shutter speed

                                                                      Half a crown

I had captured half a crown, however I did not feel fulfilled by the images I had produced. The images didn't excite me the way I had envisioned. The ISO had reduced my image quality dramatically and the end result meant that I had grainy images. In my final shoot I want to explore different liquid consistencies to see if this would alter the outcome, I need a lighter environment so that I can use an ISO of 100-200. 

http://singularityhub.com/2012/02/08/high-speed-photography-captures-art-in-drops-of-water/

http://www.carynesplin.com/water-drop-stage1-crown/