Shooting Balloons - DIYing High Speed Photography
It looks like this weekend is going to be weekend at the movies for all photography lovers. So sit back, and enjoy. Now, the trick is get up once the show is over and try some of the things yourself.
After two brilliant videos from Jim Talkington dealing with studio lighting on a budget, comes something completely different.
Photographer and DIYer Guy Montag came up with a nice and easy I-have-no-idea-about-electronics way to make high speed photography shots.
More chat and the video tutorial after the jump.
DIYP have some great high speed photography tutorials and some great schemes the electronic wizards can build. But this great high speed photography video does not require anything more then a few inches of aluminum foil and a bit of wire and tape.
If you'll go see Guy's Flickr stream you'll realize just how much one can achieve with so little electronics.
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Guy Montag
Wow, this is fantastic! What a clever (and cheap) way of making a trigger! Thanks to Guy for sharing his idea, I think the video itself rates high marks. I'm off to try it now!
i'm going to go try that right now
This tutorial is great! I've wanted to try high speed photography but never figured I'd be able to master even the simplest electronics and I'd end up blowing myself up.
sb400e
What terminals am a supose to use whit the sb400?
Great video.
I really enjoy the tutorial! :D
Thanks for sharing.
Hugz,
António Chagas.
next step...
So now how do i get this to fire my camera at the same time (I have no idea about electronics...)
Just turn out the lights and
Just turn out the lights and leave the shutter open.
Great Tutorial, but I cant
Great Tutorial, but I cant seem to make my Nikon SB-400 to flash. Anyone able to help me?
Many Thanks
Nick
Flash Duration
@ mike:
You do not need your camera to fire at the same time. You would focus the camera, darken the room, set a long enough exposure for you to shoot a BB through the "switch" and the flash would go off during the exposure, freezing the BB with its short duration (way shorter than most fast shutter speeds).
-Dan
Explain
So the balloon is on the other side of the tin foil when the BB is shot through it and the flash goes off. How do you time the camera to capture this shot?
experiment with the distance
experiment with the distance
Application
so, how would you use this on the balloon and other stuff?
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