you guessed it! this is ferrofluid. Fun but extremely dangerous liquid... not bad for your health, but i have a wall still stained by all this stuff. Magnets go wild sometimes, and this stuff flies all over the place, including your camera and lens.
Since then, i machine fixtures for the magnets to prevent accidents. I usually add a few degrees of freedom for adjusting the magnetic strength and divergence at the surface to control the spikage.
This is my third attempt at photographing this stuff:
As for the title, it's a physics inside joke about the annoying sentence which people use as a shortcut to avoid explaining phenonema like superconductivity - "it then superconducts because of broken symmetry"
Wtf does that mean? beats me...
PS: I love the tilt/shift 85mm
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Thanks for updating and educating us (well some of us) as to what it is. I will now have to go and educate myself as to what ferrofluid is. I really like the other picture you have put in here too.
Man, just awesome - I've somehow managed to miss the wonders of this stuff! I had no idea what this was, but loved it! Can't wait to play... Thanks for the silicon wafers tip, I've been trying to find something hard & reflective, too, for another photo idea & maybe that'll work.
Not to be rude but not putting what it is make this not following the rules doesn't it? Just wondering? Awesome shot just would have like a follow thru on what it is.
Not to be rude but not putting what it is make this not following the rules doesn't it? Just wondering? Awesome shot just would have like a follow thru on what it is.
8 - Nice processing / tones - fits the Challenge well (no idea what it is - looks like something perhaps with some liquid tension happening, but no idea given the patterns)
I hate you. Whoever you are, Whatever this is, I hate you. I spend 7 days trying to think of something beautiful and elegant reminiscent of yanko's blue ribbon winner in the last challenge, and here it is. I really hate you. 10 :) ...I spent the day contemplating your photo, and I still hate you.
It's got liquids (maybe), very smooth tones, and fantastic lighting. This will score well. I'm guessing this could be an entry from IreneM. I haven't a clue as to what it is.
Breaking the Symmetry
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