High Speed Photography The Time Machine is often used with a high speed flash to capture an instant in time. This picture captures the instant after a balloon is popped with a pin. Three Fotronix flash heads were used to illuminate the scene when a microphone triggered the Time Machine. The camera used was a Canon 10D. The balloon was filled two teaspoons of water. This picture was taken by Ted Kinsman. You can see more of Ted's work at SciencePhotography.com. A few more of Ted's balloon popping pictures can be seen here.
This picture was also taken by Ted Kinsman. It captures a cup of coffee as it falls. This exposure was triggered by the Time Machine's laser sensor.
Water drops are a popular subject of high speed photography, and the Time Machine makes it easy to photograph them. An optical sensor is arranged so that a falling drop interrupts the beam and triggers the Time Machine. The Time Machine is programmed to wait about 200 milliseconds after this trigger before it trips the flash. This catches the water drop at some instant on it's way to the surface below. By adjusting the delay one millisecond at a time, you can select exactly which instant in the splash you capture. This picture were taken with the Time Machine by Max Reinhold using a Canon 10D camera. The picture is copyrighted by Max Reinhold and cannot be used for any purpose without his permission. Max can be reached at Max@ScottHall-law.com.
The following milk drop was photographed with the Time Machine by photographer Norman Schwartz. You can see more of his work at this web site: http://www.nsapc.com/milk/
The Time Machine can be programmed to add an increment to the delay for multiple exposures and automatically take many pictures. This will capture each subsequent drop a little later in its path. In the end, you have a whole sequence of pictures showing the drop approach the surface, hit, bounce, splash and collapse. You can choose which image looks best, or even combine them all into a "slow motion" movie on the computer. Click here to see such a movie. John Hart, at the University of Colorado, takes stereo pictures of things large and small. He is now using using the Time Machine to take stereo pairs of water drops, like the images below. You probably need a stereo viewer to see this 3D image. Click here to see more of John's pictures.
The following pictures were taken with the Time Machine by Gerald Rowles, Ph.D. in Johnston, Iowa. In these pictures, the falling drop of water acts as a lens to focus the flower which is below or behind the drop (the pictures are not PhotoShop manipulations).
This is a picture of what was left after a water balloon broke. It was taken by Kevin Lewis in the United Kingdom with the Time Machine, a Canon 40D, and two 580EX flashes. You can see more of Kevin's work at www.photosbykev.com. His link to "High speed flash" has more Time Machine images and details about how they were taken.
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