alan sailer
Alan Sailer is engineer who has recently taken an interest in photography. As he is an engineer and he has access to the materails needed to make a high speed flash. He wanted to capture inanimate objects being shattered or blown up at high speeds and he could only avhieve this by creating his own flash. Most flashes go as fast as 30 microseconds. But his own, that he made, is as fast as one microsecond. Which allowed him to capture images of a projectiles smashing into objects at 700 feet per second, with almost no blur.
His photography is very colourful and interesting. None of his photographs are dull they all have an element of colour in them. This colour allows us to fully understand the impact of the projectile on the objects as it helps to highlight all the little shattered pieces and the detail of the chosen object. I think without the colour the audience wouldn't be able to appreciate the photographs properly and I would almost decribe his work as high speed impact photography.
The timing of his work needs to be perfect and I should image that it took him a while to achieve the right photograph, which is very similar to my own work. Sailer's work is experimental. I should imagine that getting the right angle and right force of imapct on the object is quite vital in his photgraphy. Similar with mine, a lot of planning probably went into it before doing his shoots. Being an engineer, it comes as second nature to him. You could say that his work even links to the exam topic, 'Transformation.' The objects are being trasnformed on impact with the projectiles. On the other hand he tends to use inanimate objects as his subject matter rather that the elements, which I think would be nice to exlpore. His work very much focuses on capturing these moments that would be missed by the naked eye. We never consider the beauty of an explosion. With Sailer's work, he has.