hss flash

[caporip]

1/8000 @ f2.8 24-70 zeiss



Part of theme per week project. This one was for water.

[Dusty]

That looks like a good entry for the Stir Crazy photo challenge! It's interesting to see what ordinary things you make exciting looking when you have the right tools.

Now, how do you use that to catch a bullet in flight?

Dusty

[Javelin]

That is a great shot. funny how water is so compelling in a photo

There was a story about that where they used 2 sheets of foil as a remote trigger. the foil was seperate and insulated and wired to the remote port on the camera , the bullet shot through the foil would close the circuit between them and make the camera take the shot. after that it was just a matter of having the camera in the right place for the bullet to be there when the picture was taken. he was able to add other props when the rig was finally tuned ... fruit like grapes and cans ect

Now, how do you use that to catch a bullet in flight?

Dusty

[Dusty]

I think that when the caught the bullet in flight, they actually used a bulb setting and ultra-short strobes to freeze it in flight. At 1/8000 sec, a slow-moving (800 ft/sec) bullet would still show over 1 inch of travel. That might be great to show it's effects on bottles or fruit. but wouldn't get the freeze effect of the short strobe. Since this technique is dependent upon the strobe firing over the whole length of the shutter travel, you'll see a blur. Maybe a very slow bullet and wide lens might make it look more frozen.

I think you would have to go back to the original bulb/short duration flash technique to get it to work. If anyone has the strobes, i can supply custom loaded slow velocity cartridges!

Dusty

[caporip]

There was a book my father bought me going back some 20 years or more called Caught in Motion by Stephen dalton, a pioneer in high speed photography of insects and birds, and in my view they are still some of the most impressive images I've seen. His website is worth checking out.:- http://www.stephendalton.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[caporip]

There was a book my father bought me going back some 20 years or more called Caught in Motion by Stephen dalton, a pioneer in high speed photography of insects and birds, and in my view they are still some of the most impressive images I've seen. His website is worth checking out.:- http://www.stephendalton.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Greg Beetham]

Yes I think you might be able too freeze even a high velocity bullet with a powerful flash, very high ISO, and a fast lens, shutter speed would not play much or any part as long as the it was standard flash sync speed and the ambient light was low, almost dark, you would also need a light grey backboard close too, and parallel with, the flight of the bullet for auto flash quenching, a bullet is too small as an exposure target. I used to see really high flash pulse speeds given for standard flash guns some as high as 1/30,000sec, that should be sufficient, if those speeds are still available that is.
Greg