Demon Light

6 broken bulbs later and this is not the image i had first imagined, but as the bulbs broke the concept evolved and the finished product is actually better than planned.

 

strobist: 1 x sb28 in softbox behind

 

How i did it:

Firstly i drilled a hole into the top right of the bulb about 2mm diameter (previous attempts at smashing this with a hammer failed everytime as these are tough bulbs and the filament would just break)

 

then i put the bulb into the lamp holder and had my assistant (girlfriend) turn on the power switch, with the camera on burst mode i kept my finger down until the filament burnt out.

 

since the bulb was in a lamp holder you couldnt see the screw thread so i turned the bulb upside down in the holder (screw end upwards) and took another picture i used the upside down picture to replace the lamp holder for this final image.

 

Aperture was set to F16 shutter speed of 250 unable to remember the exact setting on the sb28 but sure it was set to 1/16 or 1/32

Done