Critique Yolk joke

[Mike Buckley]

Drop art photography using a fried egg

EDIT: I added the second photo because I prefer it.

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[kilofoxtrott]

Wow, Mike!
Never thought of that...

Very well photographed
Klaus

 

[Binnur]

Amazing image Mike. I just love it.

 

[Palouse]

Creative, to say the least! Now you really are playing with your food!

 

[greyflash]

I looks good enough to eat. Whoda Thunk!

 

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Binnur, Nick and Gordon!

Now you really are playing with your food!

Probably more than you thought. I imagined the drops penetrating the yolk's surface before bouncing upward or at least using the yolk's surface as a trampoline. Instead, the surface was so relatively rigid that the drops just bounced off in no attractive formation. So, I broke the yolk's surface to get more appealing results. I had hoped to get a high bounce and the collision that is captured in traditional drop art photography but the taller bounces were out of control. So, I settled for capturing the crown.

 

[dossy]

The second one is different by nuance. It actually looks like it's spitting out the droplet! Love these!

 

[olshroom]

1/8 of a second csaptured that. Wow. I thought it would have been much faster..

 

[alexf]

Great work!

 

[urbanflyer]

I thought the second one looked like a maw waiting to be fed! You are having so much fun and getting such interesting results!

 

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you also to dossy, Alex, Urban and olshroom!

1/8 of a second csaptured that. Wow. I thought it would have been much faster..

I didn't explain in any of my posts that I used a flash unit to stop the action. In that situation, the shutter speed is not indicative of the amount of time bright light was striking the sensor; instead, it is the amount of time the flash unit was emitting its light that matters. The flash unit was emitting light for about 1/18,000 second.

 

[Mike Buckley]

The only difference between the first and second versions of the photo is that in the second one the reflection of the mid-air droplet was removed, which then begged a slightly tighter crop.

 

[Mike Buckley]

It actually looks like it's spitting out the droplet!

It's impossible to know for sure without also making a slow-motion video of the action, but it's more likely that the droplet was indeed moving upward, not downward, because it probably had bounced off the egg below it.