Milk Drops In Liquid Soap
Dylan Selinger

Method:

    For this section we kept the basic setup and placed a small clear cup filled with blue liquid dish soap underneath the milk container as our surface.  We were able to adjust the delay unit to observe different stages of the splash.  Because the liquid soap is such a strange surface, the splashes all came out in very different ways.  The crown was always broken around the top of the slash because when the drop hit the surface of the soap the surface tension was always different in different spots and made it bounce back up oddly.  Like the other two projects, the soap was very reflective and so we had to hold the flash back and pointed away from the subject to avoid overexposure.  We were pleased with the amount of photos we got in the time we had.

    The hardest part of getting these photos was setting back up after the milk had hit, because the soap surface had to be clean of the milk for it to take a good picture.  One of the best things about these photos are how pretty they are.  The blue soap makes a nice focal point and the splashes were all fairly centered on the surface.  We were pleased with how sharp they turned out, because right before we got to this section we'd been having some trouble with the focus. 

Gallery:

In this photo, the drop has sunken into the liquid soap during collision.

This photo shows how the soap causes the drop to splash off the surface abnormally.

Notice the broken crown on the front of the splash.

Here the crown is almost broken in the back.

Here is a similar to the last picture.

This was an odd splash, taken slightly later than those before.

This has a similar effect as before.

Also very similar to the photo before it.

This was the oly photo where the splash came up with a whole strong crown.

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In this photo, the drop has sunken into the liquid soap during collision.

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