The Morning News has a a great piece on Martin Klimas, an artist that uses sound to capture movement.
I drop the figurine from the same height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. When the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second.
The moment of impact is poetic:
Read more and see more at The Morning News.
Tor Løvskogén
on 11 Sep 07I wonder how many he has to break to get one decent image.
Skellie
on 11 Sep 07There’s a strange beauty about those images, particularly the first and the second. Something to do with a sense of frozen time, I guess.
Will Green
on 11 Sep 07Very cool. You can almost hear the figurine shattering.
ChrisFizik
on 11 Sep 07wow .. pretty c00l
reminds me of stuff dipped in liquid nitrogen….
ScribbleSheet
on 11 Sep 07Love the first and second. Really cool.
Yossef
on 11 Sep 07Excellent. I’ve seen other images like this with splashing liquid, popping balloon, and breaking glasses. Something about using a person figurine gives it a wonderful quality.
The technique, for anyone into photography, is simple and straightforward, and almost the only way to do it (or the only way that is both simple and straightforward).
It also reminds me of the end of The Usual Suspects, with the coffee mug being dropped and shattering on the floor. I love how the multiple views of that are quite obviously multiple takes.
Josh Walsh
on 11 Sep 07How creative.
Jean-Michel Decombe
on 11 Sep 07Does anyone know where you can buy the figurines he used for the pictures?
Mimo
on 11 Sep 07Yes
mmm
on 11 Sep 07Ironically , the photo gallery could really benefit from lightbox’s auto resizing. On my laptop i needed to scroll each time a new pic loaded to be able to see it.
James Scott-Brown
on 11 Sep 07Make magazine ran an article about High Speed Photography with instructions on making a sound or light operated strobe from the flash in a disposable camera. They also sell a kit with preassembled flash trigger, and have a Flickr pool with some pretty impressive photos.
Erik
on 15 Sep 07I love the second one…it looks like the birds have been liberated from the figurine.
Kasper
on 15 Sep 07Yeah, that’s what first caught my eye as well Erik.
mosaicart
on 15 Sep 07Hey, what do you do with all those shattered pieces ? I’m a mosaic artist, and could have a field day with them when you’re through.
chris
on 16 Sep 07i’m not one to call photoshop.. but these look photoshopped.. look at the shadows etc…
Wesley Tanaka
on 17 Sep 07Clever!
Yajaira
on 17 Sep 07pretty colors have the secong pic
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