High speed photography

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had a go at this last week at at brians studio in Preston (studioevents.co.uk)
Was pretty good and very messy but i enjoyed it..

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This was a water balloon with a little red food dye added to the water
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They are all good and it looks like something I'd love to try.

Number three is my favourite, as it shows all of the carnage and mess nicely!
 
Hi, Great images! this is also some thing id like to try.
Looking at the exif data im slightly confused, as its high speed photography thats clearly frozen the image, yet the shutter speed was 1 second I was expecting some thing like 1/2000 lol how does this work? with no flash to freeze either :shrug:
 
Its the flash that captures the action. We basically had a sound trigger
to set off a couple of flashes. You open the shutter, fire the gun and with
a bit of adjustment on the trigger delay, sensitivity, distance of the gun
etc, you capture it. All done in very low light ambient light btw..

The Exif data isnt much help in this situation..

Hope that made a bit of sense
 
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Great shots Rob, I am going to have a try over X mas, can I ask how many flashes were used,

thanks in advance Bill
 
It's on my 'to-do' list for early 2012 :)
I've been looking at building a DIY trigger:
(Breadboarded for testing, Veroboard when/if I'm happy)
HiViz
But I'll wait until the season madness has calmed down before I source components!
It's the SCR that's looking to be problematic. I have a surplus £6 optical slave unit , like from Amazon/BV Electronics Amazon/BV Electronics that might be worth bodging. Logically, it should be similar to sound, just the input different. Maybe an op-amp (LM386-type) between input and Mic. I have no idea what I'm doing but what the hell lol.
 
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Rob_W said:
Its the flash that captures the action. We basically had a sound trigger
to set off a couple of flashes. You open the shutter, fire the gun and with
a bit of adjustment on the trigger delay, sensitivity, distance of the gun
etc, you capture it. All done in very low light ambient light btw..

The Exif data isnt much help in this situation..

Hope that made a bit of sense
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Hi Rob, yes that makes sense, although ive not heard of a sound trigger so will have to Google that. defo want to be trying this type of photography some time in the new year (y)
Thank you for the reply :)
 
I'm just completing my air gap flash at the moment then it'll be out with the air rifle and a huge mess in the garage!
 
We used two flashes, one at the front and one at back of the object just
out of shot, seemed to work quite well..
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Thanks Rob, I would say it worked extremely well,

Bill
 
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