This is a picture representing the interaction between vegetable oil and water.
Report: Get Wet Report
Jordan Nahabetian
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Flow Vis Guidebook
- Introduction to the Guidebook
- Overview 1: Phenomena. Why Does It Look Like That?
- Overview 2: Visualization Techniques
- Overview 3: Lighting
- Overview 4 - Photography A: Composition and Studio Workflow
- Overview 4 - Photography B: Cameras
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Focal Length
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Aperture and DOF
- Overview 4: Photography D: Exposure
- Overview 4 - Photography E - Resolution
- Overview 5 - Post-Processing
- Clouds 1: Names
- Clouds 2: Why Are There Clouds? Lift Mechanism 1: Instability
- Clouds 3: Skew - T and Instability
- Clouds 4: Clouds in Unstable Atmosphere
- Clouds 5: Lift Mechanism 2 - Orographics
- Clouds 6: Lift Mechanism 3 - Weather Systems
- Boundary Techniques - Introduction
- Dye Techniques 1 - Do Not Disturb
- Dye Techniques 2 - High Visibility
- Dye Techniques 3 - Light Emitting Fluids
- Refractive Index Techniques 1: Liquid Surfaces
- Refractive Index Techniques 2: Shadowgraphy and Schlieren
- Particle Physics: Flow and Light
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water - Under Construction
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
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This is an amazing display of subtle color differences carving out your image! Lighting and graininess could be improved by decreasing your ISO and increasing your light. A lot of people seemed to use dye but you didn’t and it still turned out great.
The balance between the downward momentum of the oil and the bouyant force acting on it makes funky shapes – id love to see the other photos you got and to see the change.
Really cool photo. The dark background makes the lighting in the water and vegetable oil stand out. Good focus and shutter speed. The flow of the vegetable oil in the water has a good aesthetic.
The contrast and shadowing make the subject of the image very clear. I really enjoy the focus as well as the flow present.
I really like how the cup is framed in black. It takes away any distractions from the photo.
This is a really nice illustration of the idea. The golden colors makes this picture very cozy. Great editing and focus.
Subject is in focus and everything is represented well. The brightness could be increased a little. Cool fluid flow exhibited with the oil and water.
This composition is simple, yet interesting. The forms of each fluid are clearly present so it contributes to the viewer’s understanding of how oil interacts with water.
The image is very subtle. The dark background helps us focus in on the fluid phenomena.
The balance between the downward momentum of the oil and the bouyant force acting on it makes for some interesting shapes. The bright reflection on the bottom and top of the glass really draws attention around the image.
I really like the faded crop and grainy effect of the the fluid. You can see a lot of colors even though one color is distinct.
Excellent image, I love the soft lighting, muted colors, and faded edges along the background. Perhaps lighting it slightly differently could add more highlights towards the center of the image.
The interaction of water and oil is captivated well here. The flow was captured nicely with your shutter speed!
The cropping is spot on in this image, and there are no distracting elements so the fluid remains the highlight. I don’t mind the grany aspects of the image. I think you just need more light overall.
Nice framing and focus. Would it be useful to take additional photos from different angles around the glass? What do you think is happening in the top left corner?
The focus and color contrast are nice and really draw the attention to the fluid flow. It is really interesting to see the bubbles inside the oil being poured into the water.
The detail of the oil inside of the water is phenominal. The lighting is also nice too because it’s not too bright.
I like the flow interation between oil and water. The color is so beautiful and I like the black background.
I think the color is really cool as well as the flow of the oil. I think the focusing and lighting is great.
Art
I like the contours of the oil in the water. They’re almost MUSCULAR.
Flow
It’s a little hard to tell what’s happening but after you explained it I got it.
Photographic Technique
I like the colors.
The focus is really well done, and the background helps focus attention on the actual flow. I also really like color composition in the image. The image is a little bit grainy.
I think this is a good demonstration of the interaction. Very good zooming too
Nice idea, and flow looks beautiful. I like how the background is not distracting at all. Maybe make the image smaller?
I really like how crisp this image is. It allows for you to really focus on the different aspects of the fluid flow.
Focus is good, and perhaps colors could be added or enhanced. The star back background was nice
Very cool shot. Personally I am not a fan of the color of the oil so if it does not take away from the physics, you could consider playing with fairly extreme color modifications.
I like the vignette effect here, it highlights the flow area nicely. It looks very organic and pleasing. I especially like the boundary layer at the top. Some more color would be nice, but that’s tough with vegetable oil.
The flow looks really cool. Despite how fast the flow appeared it looks like I’m looking as something very viscous and slow. It is very smooth and I really like how this image turned out.
Good focus in this image. The black background is nice as well. Maybe some lighting near the middle of the glass would help highlight the flow a bit more.
Very nice composition of the flow and the lighting. I really like your choice to darken the boundaries outside the glass.
I like the flow. The smooth oil is really pretty. I like the cropping out of the background.
Maybe invert the colors or something? I am curious as to what it would look like inverted.
Nice composition. The exposure is a little low but I love shape of the oil. Nice job
I like the black background. It it very easy to see the flow and I love the glow the oil gives.
Nice image, good focus and very clean image. I like the way you crop the image. The lightning is good as well.
The flow is shown very well, the focus of the image is spot on. I think different lighting could have made the colors and contrast stand out a little more but overall, great work.
The demonstration of the differences in densities of the fluids are awesome. The coloring could be brightened up in my opinion, but a great piece nonetheless.
The focus and lighting is really nice in this image. I would like to see a little more fluids motion going on but it is a nice image.
Cool use of different fluids, I like the air bubbles trapped in the oil. I would change the crop on the background, maybe make it a perfect circle.
Really like the focus and the flow of the oil and water. Really like the color theme. Love how the image has no distraction.
Cool technique using oil. I love how goldish the oil color is.
Very interesting picture, very colorful. Good focus, exposure and timing. Flow is understandable. Good demonstration of different viscosity fluids.
Focus seems pretty spot on, but maybe could be better if using digital zoom. Image could have has a littler more highlights.
Very nice aesthetic and demonstration of different viscosity.