Ink Dispersion

Certain substances in the world mix with water, normally turning it a different colour or changing the waters clarity.The name of the process when  a substance mixes with water is called dispersion. Examples of this can be seen in natural rivers with grit and mud clouding the water and usually turning it a brown colour, but this process can also be seen in an even more common scenario such as using juice cordial to change the flavor of drinking water. even from a small drop, the substance will continue to mix with the water until the all of the water has been saturated.

I have chosen to utilize this process for a photographic experiment by showing how ink can disperse into water and create some beautiful shapes. I set the shoot up by filling a glass water tank with water and placing a white background behind it in order to achieve nice contrast against the black ink. I then set up a camera and changed the image type to RAW for easy editing in Photoshop. Next set up the tripod in front of the tank and began dripping ink into the water. 

As planned the ink created beautiful and rather distorted shapes as it drifted through the water although one bad side to this was that using a high ISO caused my images to suffer from lots of noise. This process has lots of potential for other experiments and would work extremely well with double exposure experiments within Photoshop.

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