Wet-N-Wild

A little over a year ago I bought a small kit that would allow me to play around with high speed photography. It worked out better than I thought. I was able to capture some cool images of balloons popping.

The other day I brought out the kit to shoot some water drops with Christine, Karen, and Nikki.
Played around with using both the sound trigger, and breaking a laser light beam. It was a bit of trial and error, and a little messy, but so much fun. Some images are here: Drop one, two, sugar into coffee.

Basically the way we do these is we shoot in a dark area of a room. It doesn't have to be pitch black. The camera is set to bulb mode and the image is captured when the strobes are triggered, then we close the shutter. The light source is two stage lighting strobes chained together and connected to the trigger unit. We use either the microphone to record an audio event (splash of the sugar cube in the coffee), or the light sensor with a red laser light and have the water drops break the plane of light. Play around with the sensitivity and delay to capture the event.

Next up is trying to capture things shot with an air gun.