Liquid gold: Amazing ‘droplet shots’ capture splashes of cream and water forming beautiful shapes
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These amazing ‘droplet shots’ use high-speed photography to capture splashes of liquid forming beautiful shapes.
Photographer Jim Kramer experimented with water, cream, milk and glycol to achieve various weights and textures for his unique artworks.
He then aims lasers through the split-second sculptures, or adds in pinballs and magnets to complete the eye-catching effect.
Space age: Jim Kramer’s Orbital captures the moment heavy cream and food colouring is dropped on to a pinball and neodymium magnets
Art royalty: Mr Kramer made Lasers & Cream, left, and Cosmic Crown, right, by shooting a beam of light at black glass as he dropped a heavy cream crown on to it
Mr Kramer, from Cincinnati, Ohio, uses black and white glass mirrors as backgrounds for the dramatic images.
A stop shot tracks the path of falling droplets and a flash is set off at the exact moment of impact to illuminate the key moment.
‘I also rely on additives like guar gum, glycerin site.
Many other photographers have also experimented with high speed photography. Markus Reugels and Brian Davies have each produced similarly impressive images.
Wild imagery: Antlers is a heavy cream collision of multiple blue and white drops on a solid surface
Unique: Side by Side Crowns was made by accident, when a single source of liquid split in two
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