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My current high speed macro project has been ongoing for over a year now. My interest lies in manipulating the random element, in order to create a well balanced preplanned outcome. I initially wanted a stark, graphic, (almost "Pop Art") effect, but over time this has transformed into an increasingly dynamic, three dimensional statement. I'm still learning and there is still much to be discovered.
The technique for capturing the pictures has also evolved over the year. I started with camera triggered flash, but now use multiple light sources and an electronic triggering device I designed and built myself. For the future I intend to develop the drama in the lighting and start investigating how I can resist the liquids natural desire to form a sphere.
I've been taking photographs since I got my first camera, a Kodak instamatic in the mid 1960's and then later with film SLR's. I was derailed when I saw my first digital camera. I always hated film, just as I hate cassettes, video tape and records. I knew one day we would be free from spinning things magnets and chemicals.
I bought a digital camera the second they appeared on the market, and realised that whilst it was cool we had a long way to go, so I patiently waited for a digital SLR. Luckily I am a very patient person because it was 10 years before something that looked like it would do the job appeared. I passed the intervening time climbing the pixel ladder, 1M.. 3M.. 4M.. and learning about digital processing, a touchy subject for me. As there's nothing I dislike more than a good photograph made "perfect" in photoshop.
So starts phase 3 of my photographic life. I love the digital realm, and yet confusingly I use the medium just like a traditional film camera. All my effects are done "in camera" and the only post processing I use is cropping. I have put a sprinkling of what I do on this site and I hope you enjoy looking at the photographs as much as I enjoy taking them.
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