Rotating Splashes

by: Patrick Moore

February 20 - March 5

The goal of my project was to investigate what happens when a milk splash falls onto a rapidly rotating surface.  I used a Sony DCK-FP3 for the first two photo shoots and a Nikon D1 for the final shoot.  I used a Vivitar 283 flash unit connected to a photo gate trigger and a delay circuit.  I tried two different methods for obtaining a rapidly rotating surface.  First I secured a large crystallization bowl to a rotating drum.  This proved to be impossible to center and make stable at high rpm's.  Above is the first and only successful picture with the glass bowl.  After deciding that the glass bowl was two dangerous to spin any faster, I switched to a small light-weight plastic bowl which proved very successful.

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