In his new Liquid Jewels series, Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner focuses on color and the force of a popped balloon air pressure to create an amazing collection of portraits.
Oefner covered each balloon in acrylic paint, and took the pictures of them right after they were pricked with a needle. Once the balloons explode, the paint gets thrown in different directions, leaving Oefner a few seconds to capture the moment.
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Oefner explains what he enjoys most about the Liquid Jewels project on his personal website:
"What I particularly love about the images is that if you look closely, you can see how the individual shades start to mix with each other," he wrote. "[B]lue and magenta becomes violet, red and yellow becomes orange…within a few microseconds, the paint forms into the most beautiful color combinations and then its gone again. What remains is the capture of that firework of colors, frozen in time."
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