As impressed as I am with your photo, I am even more impressed with your engineering acumen. I am aware of some costly devices that trigger a flash, or even the camera, but you have done it with bare bones equipment. Thanks for the engineering lesson.
ironabike wrote:
I am not believing that you put this all together!! Man!! Nice work--and looks like it was fun too. I don't think I can add anything to what everyone else has said. Just add another WOW.
Jane
Hi Jane, Thanks for the WOW, I'll take those all day. It was really a lot of fun. I also said a few curse words because a few times when I put the death blow on the bulb.... it scooted out of the way and didn't break. Cool thing was that I could just hit delete... no wasted film... I love digital! Thanks again for stopping by!
cennerfelt wrote:
Great shot Wilson, This is one shot I would love to try this someday. You have done it well.
Christian
Thanks Christian, I appreciate your comments. Yeah, give it a try. The hardest part for most will be destroying a sync cord, but that's a cheap sacrifice. It's not often you get to break things and be happy about it!
Dannett wrote:
Great ingenuity Wilson. As for a flouro tube, well you had better get a lot more plastic wrap, thoes things make a lot of mess when they go pop!
Daniel.
I figured that might be the case if I tried the flouro tube. I'd have to waste a few more garbage bags. I wanted to use my black muslin so I didn't have reflections, but I thought better of that. Thanks again for commenting.
MarcR wrote:
Brilliant! Must have been lots of fun. I'm so excited I've broken
two bulbs in my office already (forgot to take a picture though )
Marc.
P.S.: Any spare television sets at home?
Hi Marc, you bring up a good suggestion... a TV set would be spectacular! Those are hard to break though... When I was about 12 years old I tried to shoot the screen out of a old B&W that was in the trash... The darn BB bounced off the screen and hit our front picture window... I was in lots of trouble for that one... so beware!
Hopefully your not on a CRT monitor.. I'd hate to see break that too.....
As impressed as I am with your photo, I am even more impressed with your engineering acumen. I am aware of some costly devices that trigger a flash, or even the camera, but you have done it with bare bones equipment. Thanks for the engineering lesson.
Best regards,
Robert
Robert, that was an extremely nice comment, thanks! I was almost a little embarrassed to show the crude set-up, but I'm glad I did. Hopefully others will give it a try. I think next I will build a more permanent set-up so I can play some more. I'd like to bust a hot bulb with a drop of liquid.... I can envision the steam rolling off as the bulb bursts..... that will be tricky.
Artisador wrote:
Gee Wilson... I'm shattered...
There go my hopes for winning!!!
I'm BROKEN-hearted...
Heh heh - totally cool man-
/\rt
Thanks /\rt... if you would've capture the sonic boom.... you'd be a shoe in!!! Thanks for stopping by. There is still time and if you run real real real fast you might see the boom!.....hopefully not the D2X going boom boom.
I have to add my WOW to Jane's! Wow! Wow! Wow! Even thought I'm definitely not an engineering type and my eyes glaze over a bit from your description of how you set it up, I am in awe of anyone who can figure out something as amazing as this. Most of my photos are pretty bare bones, improvised setups, too, so I really appreciate what you've achieved here. Great work!
Strad wrote:
I have to add my WOW to Jane's! Wow! Wow! Wow! Even thought I'm definitely not an engineering type and my eyes glaze over a bit from your description of how you set it up, I am in awe of anyone who can figure out something as amazing as this. Most of my photos are pretty bare bones, improvised setups, too, so I really appreciate what you've achieved here. Great work!
All the best,
Endre
Thanks a lot Endre, I appreciate your praise. Your eyes probably were glazed because I rushed the write-up and wasn't clear enough. The cool thing about this forum is that we all have strengths and we can learn from each other. I've certainly enjoyed your photos for the few months I've been lurking.
This certainly looks to be the action shot of the week, Wilson. The late Harold Edgerton would be delighted with this image. (He broke a lot of stuff in his career.)
This shot has good stopping power. Really well done.
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Thanks for the engineering lesson.