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Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton also known as "Papa Flash" was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Edgerton is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope  to a common device from an obscure laboratory instrument. Along with the stroboscope, he also was largely involved with the development of sonar and deep sea photography, were his equipment was used for searches of shipwrecks. Edgerton experimented with his equipment by capturing different things from the different stages of a balloon bursting to a bullet impacting an apple. His images of the bursting ballons are taken so fast that you can see the bullet, even though bullets travel at hundreds of feet per second its been captured with such a fast shutter that the bullet looks completely still as if it is floating just after the balloons. Edgerton's Images of a bullet impacting an apple show the moisture inside the apple exploding out of the entry an...

This is my first experimentation of a motion time-lapse where I tried to capture more of the movement of the cars going down a duel carriage way. The way I tried to add more movement to the video was to take each image with a long exposure to add the lines that are generated with the headlights and taillights of the vehicles going along the road.

Eadweard Muybridge started professional photography from sometime between 1861 and 1866 after he had recovered from a serious accident where he was bodily ejected out of a stagecoach and hit his head. Muybridge then made his way back to the states in 1867 where he became successful with his new talent due to his highly proficient technical skills and an artist's eye. His main focuses where on landscape and architectural photography. Muybridge had even converted a lightweight carriage into his own portable darkroom to be able to carry out his work more efficiently. Muybridge established his reputation with photos of the Yosemite Valley wilderness and areas around San Francisco. In 1872 Leland Stanford (The former governor of California and race-horse owner) hired Muybridge for some photographic studies on horses. The studies was to find out if all four hooves of a horse were of the ground while trotting. Muybridge began experimenting with 12 cameras set up in an array ...

Justin Quinnell is a pinhole photographer who started of getting a degree in fine-art photography and made his way to teaching pinhole photography. He made the transfer from camera to can when he was teaching kids photography, but as they didnt have enough money to buy a camera, but enough to buy cans of coke, Quinnell came up with the idea to teach them with cans converted to pinhole photography. He first taught them how to make their very own pinhole camera and then how to set up, with the best angles and then how to scan the image that they had created from the light sensitive paper used inside the can. On Clifton Suspension Bridge (3 month exposure)  One of  Quinnell's most popular images is the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, where he took a 6 month pinhole exposure from a dark winter night to a warm summer day not expecting the can to have survived, yet not only had it survived it ended up producing a stunning image from a simple can and time. ...

Branislav Kropilak has one of my favourite styles of photography due to his subject in the series he did and the use of editing to show more of one colour from the image. For these images I used an original image and then edited them to show more colour in a style similar to Branislav Kropilak. In the series “Landings”, Kropilak takes slow shutter images of aeroplanes going in for landing to show the lights on the plane.     This creates a solid line in the path which the plane has taken, along with the individual flashes of light from the alternating red and white of the landing lights in the centre of the plane itself.   He then emphasises the colours in the sky by editing the images to show more of that one colour, seemingly making the whole image that one colour.  To create my interpretation of his work, I imported my original slow shutter images into Photoshop and then adjusted the hue and sometimes the saturation. This is one of my origi...

I have completed a test for a analog 3D idea where I took an image of a random persons face, mounted it on foam core and then cut a section out of it to then show a layer below which was the part of the skull that would be behind that part of the flesh. Then I cut another hole in the skull part which also was mounted on foam core to then have the brain behind it to show the layers of a humans head. The effect seems as if the head has actually been cut into to show the other layers that you don't see, unless you are a doctor. The foam core also adds to the layering as it then shows depth and that the layer is behind another layer or in front of one. Creating this had its difficulties as there was only one take on cutting through the foam board and image and getting the positioning right for each image to then show through. The cuts are perfect on this piece so it wasn't going to be nor was intended to be a final piece, but more of a proof of concept.

Devin Graham is a videographer who is mostly known for his action packed videos, but in some of his videos he has some stunning time lapses. Graham has had the chance to travel the globe and capture some amazing footage, from places like Sydney, Australia to Machu Picchu, Peru. Each time lapse he has created has been created in the way where you take each individual photo instead of just recording the scene and then speeding the footage up. Graham goes by the name of "devinsupertramp" on Youtube and has over 4.8 million subscribers and over 1 billion accumulative views. One time-lapse that Graham has done is in his Easter Island proposal Youtube video, where he had surprised his girlfriend at the time by proposing to her in front of the Easter Island head status that are scattered around the island. But he didn't just have the moment where he proposes to her in the video, he had taken a number of time lapses that show the beauty of the island and how stunning it c...