Jazno
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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
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Brilliant! -Amy
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