Floating Paperclip
Camera: Fuji FinePix S602z
Date: 23rd February 2006
Location: My Room
Shutter: 1.5s
Aperture: F/2.8
ISO: 200
Comments: The light source is a glowing orb with a card grid in front of it, hence the odd colour and stripes. For future reference it's really hard to get a paperclip to a) float and b) be still!
Post-processing: Cropped
24 Feb 2006 00:04
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Tags: Floating Paperclip Photography Surface Tension
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[Skip to the latest comment]hmmmm water skin
Van der Waal would be proud!
24 Feb 2006, 00:13
Mathew Mannion
Purdy
24 Feb 2006, 02:49
Definitely your best shot so far – and that's an achievement in itself!
24 Feb 2006, 09:56
once again: very cool!!
24 Feb 2006, 10:18
Yeah, agree with Simon, best one yet. Wow.
24 Feb 2006, 13:42
Mark Jarvis
Thats is ultimately coool!!
24 Feb 2006, 14:24
Jonathan Elliott
Brilliant! How did you get it so still?
24 Feb 2006, 16:06
After waiting a while for the water currents to stop jiggling the paperclip, I figured it must just be random surface and air motion jiggling the paperclip around… so I went a bit Robinson Crusoe and fashioned an magnetic trap for the paperclip. I wanted to submerge the magnets, but they would have dragged the paperclip under – so I attached them to a metal ruler held over the water:
This placed the paperclip exactly how I liked, because it wanted to align along the magnetic field to minimise its energy. Any movement away from this local minima would give rise to a force pushing the paperclip back into place.
24 Feb 2006, 17:50
Ingenious!
24 Feb 2006, 21:16
Yeah, very impressive!
24 Feb 2006, 21:49
Mark Jarvis
Thats dedication! By any chance, was the paper clip used from the floor at the physoc elections? Bit of a long shot..
24 Feb 2006, 23:39
10/10 for observation Mark!!
24 Feb 2006, 23:55
Mark Jarvis
damn i'm good!
25 Feb 2006, 14:38
Jonathan Elliott
Wow! Very clever.
25 Feb 2006, 16:47
Andrew Morris
I like! Also by now Nath the money owe u nath should be in your account. Any probs let me know.
28 Feb 2006, 11:57
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