In his latest project entitled ‘Liquid Jewel’, Zurich, Switzerland-based photographer Fabian Oefner uses the help of popping balloons to capture the stunning images of colorful paint blending together in mid-air.
To capture the ‘action’ series—that one might otherwise miss, as a pop of a balloon happens in the blink of an eye—Oefner first covers modeling balloons with acrylic paint.
He then pricks them with a needle to cause the air pressure from inside the balloon to blast the colors in different directions.
“What I particularly love about the image is that if you look closely, you can see, how the individual shades start to mix with each other,” Oefner wrote.
“Blue and magenta becomes violet, red and yellow becomes orange… within a few microseconds, the paint forms into the most beautiful color combinations… and then it’s gone again. What remains is the capture of that firework of colors, frozen in time…”
[via Fabian Oefner]