Water World

Dexter Myrick and Claire Bateman

4/10/03 - 5/31/03

Introduction/Abstract:

Our goal was to capture images of a speeding pellet impacting a thin film of water.  In order to fully analyze this phenomenon, we had to take a large volume of photographs in the attempt to capture the "stages" of this high speed event.  We then ordered these photographs chronologically to give us an overall understanding of its progression.  We used an aluminum pipe with a narrow slit to create the "water wall," Pumpmaster 760 pellet gun to shoot at it, two Nikon digital cameras to capture the image, and a Vivitar 283 flash unit with wide-angle Fresnel lens to backlight our subject (the pellet hitting water).  We used a frosted sheet of Plexiglas to diffuse the light from the flash unit.  In this manner, we captured this event from 3 different angles in order to try and put together a complete "image" of what happens, exactly, as our pellet travels through the thin film of moving water.

Copyright statement:  All photographs on this site are the property of Dexter Myrick and Claire Bateman.  Their permission is required for reproducing these photographs in any way.  Send permission requests to winters@ncssm.edu.

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