See Inside An Atomic Bomb With Extreme Speed Photos
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2023
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Not only were the photos beyond amazing,but this whole video was a 14 min art piece that I thoroughly enjoyed!!!Beautiful work 👏
I remember spending several nights in 1977 laying on the floor of a darkened room in our student house with two cameras, flashguns, timers, trigger wires and an air rifle, using wine and milk bottles as targets and getting amazing images of the pellets as they hit the glass, and of the shattering bottles. We didn't cover the floor very well and got into a heap of trouble about the glass fragments in the carpet. Totally worth it. I must try to find the negatives and scan them.
That's an amazing story . Thanks for sharing.
I am intrigued. Let us see!!!
I was a kid in the 1960's and this brings back lots of fun memories. My older sister woke me up one night in July of 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong on a cheap black and white TV take the first steps on the moon. I definitely see this as art, although probably unintentional by the people who made it. Even though the images of the space suit, glove, cockpit can be seen as clinical, I think they can be seen as literal documentation similar to (IMO) photos by William Egleston or Walker Evans. I think you could draw similarities with some of the still life photos of Edward Weston. After the Oppenheimer film, I started shooting Kodak XX as part of my film photography. Great memories. Thanks!
Initially NASA did not have a defined photography program. Apparently Walter Schirra who happened to be an avid photography nut, convinced NASA to let him take a Hasselblad 500c on his Mercury mission. NASA was so impressed that Hasselblad cameras and photography training became the standard for future missions.
As a retired biologist, I find myself looking for the art in the science, especially in plants and I am drawn to macrophotography. As I continue to learn to see, it is so fun to experiment. As long as I don’t stick my finger in the fan or fall asleep in the office. Thanks for your videos, they are so fun and thoughtful.
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I am a biologist & have always taken photos that combine art & science because they appeal to both communities 👍🏻
My Dad was an impromptu photographer.. Somewhere along the way i became a photographer who took pictures of laboatory prototype hardware.. I've always been attracted to macro photography. Thanks your video
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Another great presentation! When I was active duty Air Force in the mid 60’s I was a motion picture photographer. My first duty assignment was at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. We did high speed mopic aerial work. Our fastest amera ran at 500 FPS. Exciting times for a 19 year old! As an aside, one of our mainstay cameras ran at 240 FPS, I can accomplish the same rate with my iPhone! Again thanks and keep up the good work!
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@@ThePhotographicEye This reminds me of a photo book I have, left behind by the prior tenant of the house oddly enough, which has various photos by various people. One of them is one of those blind luck photos. It is a photo of a bomb that the IRA had set in a building just blowing up. Just by coincidence the photographer had hit that shutter button at the same time the bomb went off. Similarly, there is a photograph of a Japanese bomb just barely starting its explosion on an American ship in WW2 that the photographer had shot it just as it was happening. No one on that flight deck survived and neither did the photographer on a platform above. Incredibly, the camera survived and was found among the debris and the film was processed.
@@ThePhotographicEye That bullet shot shows the angle of the shock wave. That's caused the Schlieren effect. Measure that angle and there is a formula you can plug it into and you can calculate the speed just from that angle. A guy with a channel called Smarter Every Day sets up an apparatus to see this angle and determines the speed of the bullet observed. He has all kinds of science and engineering topics on his channel including some on photography, one is how they calibrated shutter speeds in the films days, another a visit to a film manufacturing plant. I think you'd enjoy his channel.
i love the "pure-ness" of the Apollo pictures.
This an 16x9 are some of the best videos on the subject 👍👍👍
This is off topic but it struck me as I watched this video. The short clip during this video where a narrator was talking about fan blade cutting through a smoke stream brought back memories of this narrator who was used for many informational type short films of late 1930's to around 1960 when you didn't hear him any longer. This narrator had a somewhat unique American accent that wasn't all that common but you'd still hear it when was growing up in the 1950's and 60's but this American accent has completely disappeared in todays US and the only reason I wrote this ws because I fully remember some people sounding this way besides this particular narrator which I remember him well.
What got me was him reading “comma” and “period”, like dude don’t read the punctuation. Derp.
Harold Edgerton is from my hometown, where I still live. We actually have a science center named after him here and in the spire of our courthouse, a strobe light flashes all night to honor his achievements.
Yes, Edgerton! I was so lucky as a 12-year-old to get to meet him at a presentation he gave at the Museum of Science in Boston in the early 80s. He autographed a postcard that had the image of one of his famous 'milk drop' images.
9:10 - Tower shot - The spikes protruding from the bottom of the fireball are the tower guy wires being consumed. They call it the "Rope Trick Effect"
I remember, we had a set of those disney books when I was a child. I believe I still have them packed away somewhere. They were great !
Alex, I enjoy our conversations , one I listen and I learn, thanks
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Third explosion photo looks like one of those desert rain frogs. So that is where they came from😊
There is something spiritual about witnessing or even seeing photos of a nuclear explosion. There is something deeper than I think we mere mortals can explain.
The images of Ed White doing an EVA are incredible. Imagine being one of the first couple of people to ever do that? To see earth from that view moving at 17,000 MHP and “floating” above the earth in space in 1965. I wish that could have been me!
It wasn't just EG&G that did such photography. For instance, the UK developed its own camera: the C4 Rotating Mirror High Speed Camera. Nowadays you can buy (expensive) cameras which expose one million frames per second. The (Oxfordshire) Rosalind Franklin Institute is developing one to expose one hundred million frames per second
The milk drop image inspired Salvador Dali’s “Milk Crown” signature
That brought back some memories. Growing up in South Africa in the 60s and 70s with no TV broadcast I remember being so fascinated by the bullet cutting the card image. I even took a black and white photo of it with my Kodak instamatic to play with effects in the dark room. And the listening to the moon landing on the radio, then a few days later seeing the images in the newspaper. Finally seeing film of the landing a few weeks later on the news reel at the drive in. Sorry, gone on a bit.... nostalgia.
I finally figured out why I like your videos so much. You are a “story teller” like me. Each subject you cover, you are compelled to share your thoughts. I love it. PS- there must be a US/UK language difference. I noticed that you pronounced Edgerton as “egg erton ”. In the the US we call him “edge erton”. 😅 keep it up! Love it!
Thanks! I spent some time in FL early 2000's and could never figure out why that one shop was called Chik-Fil-AAH :D
What I see in those first fractions of a second are the shock wave patterns created by the explosive lenses that compress the critical mass. These cores are layered and have different materials in them, the centers are hollow... The physical and materials geometry is completely reflected in the shape and temperatures of the early fireball formation.
What incredible images you have shared with us Alex. I have never thought about the scientific side before but now I will. Thank you. 🎉
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I had that book. I can't tell you how many times I read through it. Had a few others in that series too. I think they were in history and other topics. I was also a child of the late 70s and 80s, btw.
Liked and subscribed. Great video. 😊
outstanding photos ! thank you so much for sharing your love of photography with us.
My pleasure!
Speaking as a child of the 1950's, the feeling of watching atomic tests in slow-motion is what is called "horrified fascination". The speed at which a nuclear explosion unfolds CAN NOT be filmed (people directly under are vaporised faster than can be recorded), and what we do see resembles a living thing.
You unleash that much energy in an instant it really does become a living thing.
Fascinating! Thank you ever so much for this compilation, Alex!
My pleasure!
It's like watching old movies, they have their own vibes :P
I, too, have been fascinated by the high speed images, rapatronic cameras that Edgerton created. I had a job interview with EG&G in LV. While waiting, I noticed a 6 up set of images that started at the first glow of the fision detonation, through to the final image showing the structure fully engulfed in the plasma fireball. You could see the rope trick effects following cables to the ground over the structure. It was both eerie to look at and the 'beauty' of this millisecond event. I've not since, seen this series. Scientifically, it showed fireball structure. As photography goes, there existed a strange beauty with a wonderful range of densities.
I believe that Edgerton was principle in the detonator triggers for the early nuclear devices. This was from his development of strobe devices. At RIT, we had a lab dedicated to stroboscopic imaging, such as the bullet fired through the apple.
There is definitely an art to both science and technology. Science to the consummate scientist is the art of incremental understanding and technology to the consummate engineer is the art of incremental enablement. Science raised to an art is clearer and simpler; technology raised to an art is polished and intuitive.
Enjoying a cup of coffee with you as I watch this post. Been enjoying your channel for some time now. Thanks.
Awesome, thank you!
COOL ! I was stationed at Holloman AFB 1979-1981 Alamogordo, New Mexico. I might be radio active ! I compare High speed photography to Macro photography. Both were unseen for a long time and the images produced amazed people.
This is a nice documentary about the use of photography in the sciences. Science would not be where it is, if not for the proof by means of photography. Being a scientific/industrial photographer for all my life at a university, this type of photography is my absolute passion. I never worked a single day for close to 50 years because of the joy of the profession. I always told friends that to be able to do the job properly, you need to know the science of photography very well, every facet of it, high speed, ultra violet, infrared, you mention it and we did it. We were on the edge to do Schlieren photography as well but the department could not get their act together. The only exclusion was medical photography which our sister department did at the medical faculty. And what about the beauty of double polarized light with stress patterns, you should look at that as well!! - Good to see this Alex!
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Amazing video! Thanks for it
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Hi Alex, I found this video very Captivating i was glued to my Computer. It's great looking at photos that I've never seen before like the Atom Bomb, powerful pictures. I agree these photos are Artistic and Dan Winters photos are amazing. Can't wait to see the photos of the next Moon Landing. I love the title of this video, THE HIDDEN BEAUTY OF EXTREME HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY. And it is BEAUTY at it's best. Great topic thank you for sharing it. 😃
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Carl Sagan said the high speed photos of the Trinity test looked like an embryo. In the book, Cosmos.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
I feel the same way! As a woman, you must have a unique perspective.
'Doc' Edgerton was my inspiration to study scientific photography at University! When we use a camera with a flash we walk in the shadow of a giant. He pretty much invented modern flash 'strobe' lights.
I'm also a child of the 80's (born '77), fascinated by the whole nuclear thing and also had those books!
Incredibly high speed cameras have always been incredible tools and seeing the world at fractions of seconds is quite honestly mind blowing to me.
Another great video.
Thank you
I agree with you that there is something intrinsically beautiful with many of the photographs captured during the atomic tests. I think it is possible to appreciate the beauty of the photographs without being overwhelmed by the horror of the sheer, raw destructive power that nuclear weapons represent. Understanding the physics, the way they work, the physics of the energy release, the timing, and the way energy interacts with matter...which results in this beautiful photograph. Understanding the bomb holistically makes one more appreciative of the perfect distillation and luck necessary to arrive at that photograph.
I see the train wreck paradox. The photos show something horrible, but as humans, we can't look away 😮
Awesome video and commentary.
Thank you
Great talk! 🤙
Great video as usual! The technical achievements are incredible, if someone showed me the apple with the bullet through it, it's not a photography vibe for me as much as "THIS IS PHOTOGRAPHY!!". Art disguises itself where as these are honest depictions of things we do not see normally and we know isn't just beautiful but functional. Thank you!
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These are documented in the photograph book "100 Suns" by Michael Light. Great coffee tavle book!
My favourite photographer.
I think they are beautiful. Stirs my patriotic soul.
amazing!!!
Thank you!!
The narrator for the fan film sounds like Richard Feynman
When I was very young I saw a picture of a bomb glowing from detonation before it explodes by a remote camera ? I never saw that picture again !
I’m a child of the ‘50’s when many of these shots were brand new. Being interested in guns, I was always fascinated by the bullet photos. The explosion shots felt a bit like roadkill - so fascinating that I couldn’t not look, but ugly in the extreme.
I was at the eye doctor today and asked what kind of camera takes pictures in my eye. She said it is a laser. I don't know how a laser can take a picture, but I also don't understand how sound can travel on a copper wire. Fascinating.
The nuke pictures have always awed me. Art, but more. They make me feel like I'm looking at something beyond what was meant for mankind to see. Beautiful beyond words, but forbidden. You shouldn't know or see this.
I love the NASA photography; those images are spectacular! Beautiful exposures, tone, and texture from the medium, which I assume would have been low ISO medium format transparencies, with very low F-stop lenses? Of course the prints are just as technically excellent too!
Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎
Thanks, you too!
Is there a pictorial book "to buy" of these Atomic detonations.. they're beautiful yet destructive.. I'm really interested in purchasing it and showing it to my friends.. a PICTORIAL BOOK..Thanks.. Semper Fidelis Semper Fortis
Harold was an interesting man. He was a true experimental scientist, I worked with him to actually fabricate most of his cameras. He was an artist with a Bridgeport mill.
The most interesting photo from EG&G that I’ve seen is one where the shot cab of a nuclear test is illuminated from the inside from the impending explosion. The light has emerged from the bomb casing inside the cab, but no fireball yet. I think it’s posted on MITs website.
As a child of the 50s/60s I grew up with all those images. Edgerton was making images everyone saw. It was part of our race to the future. Hello Jetsons. There was the April 30 1965 Life magazine “The Drama of Life Before Birth” images that also made me stop and stare. I was 10. And “Napalm Girl”, geez. Then “Earthrise” came along and and gave us hope again. In the 70s, I was a submarine sailor, rode a boomer in the North Atlantic and I refined my sense of awe regarding all things nuclear. Thanks for showing me Edgerton again.
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I thought this would have some info about those explosion photos.
Those photos capturing the atomic bomb are so creepy! What a collection of beautiful images.
Fun, Fascinating! I love your inquisitive mind.
Thank you!
Thank you for putting out awareness of photography combining the edge of physics with, perhaps unexpected, art of physics. As a physicist, i have become aware that when studying either the extreme large and heavy (the universe, Einstein related), or the extreme small and almost weightless (quantum mechanics and sub-atomic domains) art seems to present itself. Perhaps through it's abstractness and symmetry.
On the other hand, i must say the ultra-fast photos shown of Trinity, or in any case some of the first nuclear experiments, look horrifying and literally evil to me. That's because in an efficient nuclear device the explosion and the resulting fireball should be fully homogenous, i.e. symmetrical. These old photographs of the atoms splitting look like the atomic process is ripped apart, crippled. Which is actually true since the inward detonation was far from perfect. The purpose of these photos was actually to present these images to be able to tell the quality of that inward detonation. So yes, men succeeded in splitting the Uranium atoms, but how terrible and actually shocking this achievement looks at those photographs. It shook me to the core and those images will remain long in my mind. The monster was awakened.
Good Day. Excellent. My son and I stood on the spot where the Trinity Site Tower once stood. We visited the site on the 50th anniversary of the "Trinity" test. I've never seen this picture of the tower as it is actually in the process of being Disintegrated. Going there was one of my "bucket list items". I was born in 1952. I just found your site and the photos are fascinating. I subscribed. Thank You.
Thanks, it's great to have you here
I find the extreme high speed photos of the nuclear explosions interesting, but in a limited sense because I don’t really know what I’m seeing. I get the layman’s view of both fission and thermonuclear explosive processes, but that doesn’t really explain what exactly is bubbling outward in those photos. Of course, for that matter, I struggle with the idea that the core of the ongoing mushroom cloud is that same ball of boiling reactive material that is hot enough to be buoyant within the atmosphere for seconds or minutes after the explosion; the notion that despite the explosion, the core remains so centralized and still burning is a tough one for me.
I've got a Time Life compendium book with a bunch of the Lennart Nilsson egg/sperm/fetus shots in it. They are absolutely other-wordly. (and no, you are not alone. As a fellow '80s child, I concur, the nuclear stuff was pervasive, terrifying and still fascinating).
I kind of felt that that a good picture is one that could stand on its own without explanation or external context. With out the explanation to support some of the images of the nuclear explosions I wouldn’t really know what I was looking at, the knowledge of what they are suddenly make the “how” more intriguing than the “what” or the “why”.
I second that ,you nailed it gen x
The drop and the card were in national geographic!
We might not be contemplating the photos of nukes for the whole "oh, the horror" contrast you mention, but I do find the combination of something alien to our experience (both the fact I don't have a nuke at my disposal nor the means of recording at 1e-6s) along with the precise geometry of the results quite _spooky_. They make you wonder exactly what caused the various structures - casings evaporating or grains of sand or whatever.
You can see the conventional explosive "lenses" used to compress the nuclear materials.
Hi Alex, on a related yet different note - are you familiar with the Slow Mo guys channel?, occasionally art, sometimes educational, always entertaining; as a direct link, the first of their videos I saw was spinning an apple (bullet through the apple photo link?) with an air line until it ruptures.
Also, loving the another appearance of the coffee mug, it brings another layer of . . . what's the right word here, something between closeness and familiarity? Thx, Scott
@cm4233nz But, sadly, the cat appears to be an ex-cat. Or is it just sleeping?
Thanks for sharing Alex. An early influence on me too. I think the Egerton Atomic images, are some of the most profound photographic discoveries ever made. A strange meeting of unimaginable destruction and wondrous Beauty. A place only art and imagination normal go. It's almost like the 'Veil of the Gods' has been pulled back to reveal something that humans should never have seen.... Almost.
Yes, artistic, for the very reasons you give.
1.5 million frames a second - WOW!! That’s almost a 14 hour movie at 30 frames per second.
Yes, sir!
The nuclear bubbles startlingly appear as live organisms.
fascinating
PS: You have a technical hitch Alex. The link you mentioned about 'NASA space prog photography' did not show up on screen at the end of the video (14:15 to the end - 15:40). Looking forward to seeing it at some point. 👍
Thanks for the heads up. I could have sworn I checked the end of the video - there was a naughty hidden bit lurking at the end which I've removed.
While that processes, you can visit the video here: ua-cam.com/video/MdrxGz3HuMI/v-deo.html
My pleasure Alex. Really enjoying your content. You revived my slightly disillusioned pursuit of image storytelling and reinvigorated my ‘first love’ of photography, so thanks for that mate. No small thing.
I think the nuclear detonations at a millionth of a second is fascinating, but I am a child of the fifties. Boooorrrnnn in the fiiifffftiiiesss.
Ite that gamaray burst before you see ANYTHING thats the killer so don't be in the way and btw it goes thru lead 😊
*Isaac Asimov saw these photos and wrote the short short story 'Hell-Fire' which is on-line.*
That sound clip all the way at the end had me confused lol
haha - a technical glitch but thanks for watching it. It was amy avantgarde art peice
the art of deth himself!!
What the hell ain't no HS camera shot of a firing mechanism!? I feel so cheated.
Great idea. I believe every natural phenomenon contains the original beauty of our universe that we, through our arts, try to imitate. We are naturally occuring, and man made really means that nature is happening through us. You could say, that making the atomic bombs and taking pictures makes these our art. But I think these photos reveal that nature is still a better artist than we are. It is sometimes terrifying, but always beautiful, superlative, and just barely imitable.
Hi Alex! When I looked at some of these photos it reminded me of two things.. one is a UA-cam channel that goes by the name of "The Slow Mo Guys" or Slo Mo? and the other thing is a device which now for sale called the Pluto Trigger (you might be familiar with it?) Basically it fires the camera shutter for you to capture water droplets and such like. I'm told it can even capture lightning at the very millisecond it happens.
By the way, I have a mug exactly the same as the one you're drinking from! 😆
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Photographys of the frist stages of a nuclear weapon as its being set off...... Some people peter twiss...not saying any names 👇👇are weird great video
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Very interesting video. Notwithstanding the bizarre comment by the troll about the title mismatch. 😮
The images are forever fascinating and in the case of nuclear explosions... Terrifying!
Thank you. This is quite an old video and for some reason UA-cam is now pushing it to a much wider audience than the original intended one - hence the flood of troll comments about titles! :D
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The Joy Of Phohography!!!!!!!
Child of the 60s here The Atomic pictures were more scary to me I guess it was because it was part of the end of the world hysteria going on
That’s a normal reaction, not end of the world hysteria. And those possible events have never left us. It’s more likely now than it was in the 60s.
I think its possible to take so much pictures within a second of nuclear blast us because its so bright. So you can just roll through film...
Why does that thing have layers like an onion?
They used a spinning mirror or adrum.
Ironically, concerning Muybridge, anyone who rides a horse can tell you that there is armament of suspension" at the trot, canter and gallop - it's in equestrian tomes dating back centuries.
You may be interested in Dr. Don Pettit's photographic work from the International Space Station. There's a video on the web called The ISS Image Frontier - “Making the invisible visible” - extended 25 Minute Version
So after the world of the very fast, the images of the very small; microscopic photography?
It’s not art for art’s sake though. It’s just analysis.