Don Hoey
Strawberrys n Cream
Something a bit different .. a few shots from my experiments in using flash at minimum power settings to capture high speed action.
I cannot afford fancy infrared triggers, so in each case the trigger was kitchen foil attatched by sync lead to the flash. All shots are taken in near darkness as the camera was on 4 sec exposure to allow time to trigger the airgun, drop the strawberry or hit the light bulb. At minimum power settings (1/128) my flash gives an exposure of around 1/41600 sec. The camera shutter speed setting (must be less than sync speed) has no influence for this type of photography.
The strawberry drop took 8 frames to get right, as I was up a ladder and had to achieve a clean strike on the spoon. For this the spoon is counterbalanced and the foil trigger is out of frame. Yeah lots of mess to clean up afterwards.
Strawberrys n Cream
Something a bit different .. a few shots from my experiments in using flash at minimum power settings to capture high speed action.
I cannot afford fancy infrared triggers, so in each case the trigger was kitchen foil attatched by sync lead to the flash. All shots are taken in near darkness as the camera was on 4 sec exposure to allow time to trigger the airgun, drop the strawberry or hit the light bulb. At minimum power settings (1/128) my flash gives an exposure of around 1/41600 sec. The camera shutter speed setting (must be less than sync speed) has no influence for this type of photography.
The strawberry drop took 8 frames to get right, as I was up a ladder and had to achieve a clean strike on the spoon. For this the spoon is counterbalanced and the foil trigger is out of frame. Yeah lots of mess to clean up afterwards.