High Speed Photography Shoot

This is a time lapse of a high speed photography photo shoot of water balloons popping.

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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• photography
• high
• speed
• shoot
• water
• balloon
• time
• lapse
• 40d
• 430ex
• flash
• strobist
• canon

[weswhite7136]

But did you fire the flashes manually or use a sound device to capture the exact moment of the balloons popping?

[acekreations707]

I did it manually.

[weswhite7136]

I'd like to know what kind of device you used to fire the flashes

[acekreations707]

I used the Canon ST-E2 infrared transmitter.

[dorkyRita]

this is so legit!!(:

[vestrelado]

@jgquinton Yes you can but for me its not called high speed photography.

[123123123cowmoo]

way cool!

[jgquinton]

@vestrelado You can do high speed photos at what ever shutter speed you want. Blub setting even. It's the flash that stops the action.

[vestrelado]

Do you call high speed photography a 1/250 ???

[jaredtkatz]

@Tortuga699 yup

[jaredtkatz]

nice results but i think you'd get much better stuff at night, using only the flashes for your lighting. this way your images would be even crisper. also, you could set your camera to a longer exposure (5-10 seconds) and use a cheap wireless trigger for the flash. this way you could manually trigger the flashes while you're popping your balloons and avoid the need to use a fast shutter speed. just a suggestion :)

[Tortuga699]

You will need a noise device for doing so, sorry.

[Tortuga699]

Nice set-up. You should try it at night or in a dark room with a 4 sec shutter speed.

Have fun.

[417329]

How did you trigger your flashes?