Monday, October 26, 2009

Alan Sailer

Here he shot a rose dipped in liquid nitrogen.
Here he shot a plum dipped in liquid nitrogen.
Here he shot a chocolate kiss.
Here he shot bacon
Here he shot a snow globe

Seeing that I'm bad about forgetting, I figured I would go ahead and do the blog for this week. A friend of mine found this photographer and shared it with me through facebook. His name is Alan Sailer. He is considered an expert in high speed photography. I have never seen anything like his photography before (though I read that it has been done before). He literally shoots his subjects. He used a rifle to shoot the objects that he wishes to photograph. He has shot everything from fruit to snow globes to roses. He shots something at room temperature, some hot, and even freezes some in liquid nitrogen to enhance the explosion that he will then photograph. He is very aware of the colors as well. He often uses the complement color of the object being shot for the background to make it stand out. This is such an interesting project to me. I love to try new things and this would not have even crossed my mind. I liked this so much it was quite difficult for me to pick the ones to post here.

1 comment:

  1. Harold Edgerton was the original "master" of high speed / stroboscopic photography. Many have since come along and replicated his efforts and expanded upon them. An awareness of color in this work does make it more distinct. I took a special effects photography class in graduate school where we fired bullets at objects.... blew up oranges, watermelons, etc. It was loads of fun.

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