Water Ballon vs. Airsoft BB, Round 3

    And here are the shots!

    I love how the ripples accross the rubber is captured. This was the last shot of the evening and we nailed this one right on bullet impact with a 6.5ms delay. You can see the rubber tear and the ripples in the water underneath. Best viewed large or full size.

    Strobist:
    2x 580EX M1/64 bare on light stand, balloon left
    1x 580EXII M1/64 bare on light stand, balloon right
    1x nobrand flash on "low" bare on light stand about 3 ft behind balloon, low pointing up towards balloon.

    Triggered by custom bullet switch electrically connected to a Pocket Wizard Multimax, firing delay mode (0.0065 sec to 0.020 sec delay).

    Camera: Canon EOS40D ISO100 (M) F:8-11 Bulb
    Triggered by remote shutter release

    Concept: Terence
    Rig Design: Terence
    Lighting: DaveM, Terence, Allen Yoo
    Camera Operator: DaveM
    Shooter: Terence

    Setup shots here:

    Shooting setup: www.flickr.com/photos/ttstam/2299986142/
    Bullet switch: www.flickr.com/photos/ttstam/2299184271/
    Lighting: www.flickr.com/photos/ttstam/2299187987/

    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      rich hinton, heartreef, katenadine, (www.Billyraayn.com) Billy Raayn Photography, and 22 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. emeraldengland (64 months ago | reply)

      Wow, wow, wow,wow,wow!

    3. katenadine (64 months ago | reply)

      so cool! Yeah, love this!

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    4. (www.Billyraayn.com) Billy Raayn Photography (63 months ago | reply)

      That's the one!

    5. gapey (63 months ago | reply)

      I like this one best. It's kinda hard to tell on the others that it was a balloon at one point.

    6. fuzzirella (63 months ago | reply)

      That's pretty rad!

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    7. Peter -G (63 months ago | reply)

      Awesome! Agree w/Paula, you can tell in this shot that it's a balloon. Ok, did you guys rock, paper, scissors to see who was the shooter :-P

    8. ttstam (63 months ago | reply)

      Well, hey, we're going to do an MSE for this sometime in April. Maybe we can do it on a Friday evening so you ladies can join in on the fun?

      Yeah, we thought about entering this shot too into the contest. In hind sight with how the rules worked out multiple entries do not penalize your chance of winning (since no one picture can draw "votes" from other candidates) I should have just stuck Allen's name on it :-). The only drawback here is that it wasn't really "splashy".

      Dave had suggested a shot of 3 water balloons lined up and the delay being set so that one balloon is completetly gone, one is mostly gone and one is just exploding. the problem is we only had about an hour of shooting time and it was the first time we've test-fired that rig. Served us right for doing it on a school night.

      What's funny is that the picture that won the tally for "Most Creative" - was hung upside down on the poster board ;-).

      Thanks! :-) I'll be posting the out-takes when I get home tonight.

      Actually, I was the shooter (gun) for all of them. I guess Allen and Dave didn't want the responsibility of shooting out a 580EX or a pocket wizard by accident :-D

    9. mickeyjohnson (63 months ago | reply)

      This one is my favorite because it's so totally surreal and cool to catch the ripples in the balloon like that. But all of them are totally fabulous shots... and reading how the process works made me giggle like a little girl. Sounds like tons of fun had by all. :)

    10. ♀ Winged One ♀(off flying somewhere) (63 months ago | reply)

      WOW

    11. soggster (63 months ago | reply)

      Great stuff

    12. Mike Emigh (63 months ago | reply)

      If you filled the balloons with gasoline would the friction of the bb striking the balloon cause the gas to ignite?

    13. (www.Billyraayn.com) Billy Raayn Photography (63 months ago | reply)

      Is a 1/30,000second shutter speed standard on a 40D???

    14. ttstam (63 months ago | reply)

      Nope. This is a "equivalent" of a 1/30,000 sec exposure. Read through the notes on the entire set, I explained the entire procedure and theory.

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