Harold Eugene Edgerton was born in Nebraska in 1903 and was proffessor and photographer. He has contributed to the history of photography as most of his equipment he created was the basis for the some of the amazing creations that are being used today. He was a part of the sonar development and deep sea photography.
I am influenced by Edgerton as I adore his close up high speed images of liquid. High speed photography is my favourite way to photograph water and I am including lots of it in my research and my project.
Edgerton was a pioneer in using short duration electronic flash in photographing fast event photography. Some of his multiflash photographs had strobe equipment that would flash up to 120 times a second.
This photograph by Edgerton is of water from a running tap, I love this photograph and the way he has managed to make the water look like some form of solid object, like a tap of sludge rather than water.
This is a famous photograph of milk dropping, this photo has been referenced and re created endless amounts of time and is known as somewhat of a phenomenon in the photography world.
This photograph of a pouring tap with water hitting the glass and splashing out is incredibly special as the water is captured like a body of its own, the water in these photographs becomes a solid rather than a liquid and Edgertons high speed photography almost seems to be defying science and nature.
This photograph of a smashing glass with its contents leaking out over the floor is special. the liquid seems to escape the cup as the fragments lay broken around it.
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