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Escaping the chaos of 'brownian motion'
Escaping the chaos of 'brownian motion'
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Chemistry (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Canon
Location: School of Biosciences, Univerisity of Liverpool
Date: Jun 9, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Abstract, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2008

 Having worked in science most of my life, I had to try something for this. I didn't get the picture I wanted, but I think its cool with quite a few principles of Chemistry and Physics on display.

I borrowed some stuff from the lab for this challenge, basically, a clear glass thin walled vessel that had a cavity of 1.5mm between the front and back glass plates. This allowed me to form some liquids with different densities that would lay upon each other. Much like mixing oil with water.

I made a thin layered 10% SDS (a colourless, viscous, soapy substance) and covered this with an blue layer of bromophenol solution.
When you add acid to this, the upper blue layer turns yellow / orange, and the motion of falling acid solution forces through the layers to give a blebbing effect, which could show both the principles of gravity and brownian motion.
Luckily, a bubble shot up through the mix at the same time as taking the picture, which I think adds something interesting to the picture (and title).

The original was taken as a RAW file, with some brightness, shadows, levels and saturation adjustments to modify the look and feel of the picture. I rotated the picture slightly, cropped the picture, and added a small border.

Statistics
Place: 26 out of 62
Avg (all users): 5.5476
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.6957
Avg (non-participants): 5.5351
Views since voting: 1241
Views during voting: 498
Votes: 294
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon
 06/17/2008 08:22:26 PM
I like the colors and sense of motion, especially the bubble. 7
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Nikon D70s
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 06/17/2008 04:51:40 PM
Cool shot but a bit blurry.
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Nikon D60
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
 06/17/2008 04:22:38 PM
it's interesting, looks like a matte painting!
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Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 06/17/2008 09:20:57 AM
excellent abstract macro shot.
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Canon EOS R5 Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/16/2008 12:14:12 PM
Not sure what I'm looking at, but I like the yellow and that "drop".
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Leica Digilux 1
 06/15/2008 05:07:45 PM
Wow. What is it?
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Nikon D200
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Nikon
 06/14/2008 05:09:39 PM
This is certainly a very interesting effect which meets the challenge well - provided you know what brownian motion is of course (or like me, you can use google!). Nice choice of colours and the fall off in the blue/white section I find particularly appealing. The yellows are looking a bit dirty in places though but I guess I can't have everything!

I think the only area this picture falls down in is that, although the subject matter is interesting, this effect is quite abstract and that for some is an aquired taste. 7 from me.
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Pentax K-R
Pentax DA L 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL
 06/13/2008 06:30:12 AM
Intriguing. I don't really get the title..."escaping" from what the picture seems to be about? I hope you explain a little in your notes. I really like the little bubble, it adds a little twist. Great color and smoothness.
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 06/12/2008 09:01:34 PM
love the attempt to capture the motion of molecules through liquid - very good work 8
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Canon PowerShot SX100 IS
 06/12/2008 02:31:14 PM
cool!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF HSM for Canon
 06/12/2008 01:04:55 PM
whats that? looks cool, like the colours.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 06/12/2008 09:37:00 AM
had to goggle 'brownian motion' so I could properly vote on this one, thanks for the enlightenment
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Nikon D3s
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 06/11/2008 06:00:09 PM
cool abstract...not so sure how it fits the challenge though, I mean other than the title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC for Canon
 06/11/2008 05:05:34 PM
Not really sure what I'm looking at here, but the colours are nice.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 06/11/2008 12:33:24 AM
hmm you'll have to tell me someday what this is...:)
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