Images are powerful tools for communication and scientific analysis
Studio Photography
The documentation of the different degrees of disintegration of a product gives quick qualitative access to processes. If taken in a standardized way images can be used to numerically quantify material changes, gradual loss and even serve as a proxy to calculate degradation rates.
3D rendering and time-lapse imaging
Three-dimensional objects are hard to evaluate from a 2D image but can be made accessible through 3D rendering. These data could also be analysed for changes in surface structure or in volume. The fourth dimension, the time scale of longer lasting processes, becomes tangible through time-lapse photography.
3D rendering: Coated paper cup after short-term field exposure in a mangrove swamp
Timelapse: Biodegradable plastic film disintegrating on marine sediment
UNderwater Video & Photography
The underwater world is home to us since decades but remains hidden to most people. Over the years, we have been sharing our insight through the production of more than 60 award-winning natural history documentaries for international television. Still images and video footage help to give our partners and their clients an impression of the actual situation their products are facing in our field tests in rivers, lakes and the sea. Pictures serve as a visual description of environmental scenarios and keep record of changes over the course of long-term experiments.
Underwater video: Field experimentation at the sea floor and in the water column during the EU project OPEN-Bio (2013-1016)