This photo depicts how solder behaves when falling onto a cold cylinder. This is the threshold of when the solder is in solid and liquid state.
Get Wet // Sam Brown
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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
- Dilute Particle Techniques - Under Construction
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water - Under Construction
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
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Nice photo, I wonder what your aperture setting was?
Neat idea, and I like the framing. I wish the center were a bit more in focus to see the detail in the blue area near the top.
Beautiful picture! I didn’t realize solder did that!
Great image! I like your choice to experiment with the metallic flow. I wonder what a slow-motion of this effect would look like?
Cool image, was the background intentionally blurred?
Beautiful image! I enjoy the visualization of the folds in the solder as it hardens. Would you think of a higher shutter speed to focus on the molten solder?
I like that, as the solder hardens, you can see the motion of the liquid in the hardened solder
This is very interesting and there is so much going on it has a lot of draw! it took me a minute to figure out what was going on but I really like it!
I am impressed how you were able to capture this exact moment.
I think that the motion blur in the back kind of draws attention away but it also does a good job showing the motion. And you’re right that this would have been much easier with a team.
Great image love how you captured the solder in both liquid and solid states
I think it looks great. If you were trying to give the background more contrast, you could try spray painting the aluminum pipe.
I like how the solder looks like it’s flowing but it’s solid. Maybe using faster shutter speed to reduce the motion blur would’ve been nice but I still love the picture.
Very creative idea and great image capture. I really enjoyed how you demonstrated a metallic liquid since we usually only consider metals as solids.
I think that despite the motion blur in the center, you were able to capture the flow well in the outer ring of the solder. Despite the solder solidifying, you can still tell how it had been flowing.
Really nice, focused, and clear image.
I really like the color choice. The blue makes the water look fresh and crisp
Love seeing this flow of metal and its interaction with he solid beam. I would love to see this with less image blur.
The depth of field in this photo is really impressive. I like the contrast between the intensely focused part and the motion blur. Great job and great idea!
I’ve always been quite interested in the flow of solder since I use it a lot. The fact that you caught it in a liquid state is very fascinating since it cools down at a very fast rate.
Really cool! The colors in the reflection of the metal are very beautiful and really enhance the image overall.