Harold Edgerton

Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and inventor of the electronic flash, devoted his career to recording what the unaided eye can't see. His photographs illustrate such moments as: a bullet seen the instant it explodes through an apple, a perfect coronet formed by a milk-drop splash. These images have become classics of modern art and science.



Edgerton's photographs were taken using "standard" cameras with electronic flash exposures ranging from 1/50,000 to 1/1,000,000 of a second. 

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"Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts."

Dr. Edgerton was the first to take high-speed color photographs and was a pioneer of multiflash and microsecond imagery, which he used to take detailed photographs of hummingbirds in motion, as well as the progression of athletes' movements. These wondrous images have shown us things we were never able to see before, in photographs that are as remarkable for their precision as for their beauty.

Harold Edgerton

These images are my attempts of trying to recreate what Harold did, however they didn't turn out good. In the first one my flash was just a little bit late as you can see the milk on the spoon is moving from when the drop landed but can't see the drop. The second one turned out a bit better, but this one is slightly out of focus.