Video: "Flower aura" in photographs by Robert Bueltman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Taking a look at the works Robert Bueltman, you might think that this is not just a first-class photographer, but also a magician. Amazing flowers and leaves in the pictures look fantastic: they are surrounded by a mysterious blue glow. In order to achieve a similar effect, the master from San Francisco resorts to using Kirlian methodwell known in physics. The photographer passes a high frequency current (80,000 volts) through the plants, resulting in such an unusual image.
The Kirlian method got its name in honor of its discoverer, Krasnodar physiotherapist S. D. fits between capacitor plates made of plexiglass. A high-frequency field arises, in which the object becomes an electric conductor, an electric charge appears in it, which does not move, as in metals, but, on the contrary, is held at the same points where it arises, causing a glow of different brightness corresponding to the conductivity of the placed object.
It is this glow that Robert Bueltman managed to capture in his photographs. The photographer clarifies that before photographing flowers, leaves and thin twigs, he first leaves with a scalpel only the outline of the object in order to achieve its almost complete transparency. Then he puts the samples on a colored film, fills them with silicone and clamps them with plexiglass. In the process of ionization, an unusual blue glow appears, more reminiscent of a corona. Robert's photographs are the result of painstaking work: sometimes it takes up to 150 attempts to get a good shot.
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