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Much obliged Steve!
This was interesting to shoot. I first spent about an hour trying to devise a method to attach the bullet to a piece of wire, and have it stand on its own. I ended up drilling a hole in the bullet casing and inserting the wire, heating the wire it with a torch to melt the lead inside to help hold it on. A big lump of clay held the wire to a table with a black cloth behind it.
The vapor trail was actually fairly easy. I remembered that spraying a compressed air canister upside-down shoots off a lot of liquid with a big exciting WHOOSH. So after having shot my hand and bullet together I removed the bullet and wire from the table, and without changing lighting positions shot the vapor from the can. In Photoshop I cloned out the wire, converted to B&W using the channel mixer and toned using curves. To add the vapor trail I merely placed it as a layer with the blending mode set to lighten.
This was lit with an SB-26 as an optical slave about three feet left of the camera. Triggered with the on-board-flash of my D50 at the lowest setting
Cheers!
Jason
Edited on Dec 20, 2007 at 03:56 PM
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Brilliant! -Amy 
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) Jason!! I reiterate all that everyelse has said. My only technical complaint might be that it looks to me like you have the entire shell casing flying toward your hand as opposed to the just lead bullet, which would be all that comes out the barrel. The casing would simply be ejected from the gun. Certainly well done, though.