Water World

[Big V]

Usual holiday experimentation time - some fun with water, food colouring and a balloon..

Another attempt...

[aim54x]

Brilliant stuff!

[Wink]

That's so cool!
Now I want to see it done with a bullet.

[biggerry]

nice one

[Remorhaz]

Very very creative - I think I like the first one better (because you get to see more of the hand I think)...

[Big V]

Would be nice to try with a bullet but a former prime minister introduced tougher gun laws and a buy back scheme - so alas none to use now for me. So will have to adapt and try and use a dart or come up with another type of projectile - creativity must always overcome!!!

[zafra52]

Would be nice to try with a bullet but a former prime minister introduced tougher gun laws and a buy back scheme - so alas none to use now for me.

In this case, it has worked for you! Bullets going through apples and the like are done to death, but you have here
very uniques images. I wonder how many balloons it took you...

[darklightphotography]

Very creative. I'm thinking I'd like to see a behind the scenes video for some of your experimental pics...

[DanielA]

Great shots.

Would be nice to try with a bullet...

So who would be willing to hold it then?

Actually I'd like to see some shots without the hand. You could also try compositing with your fire shots. Fire and water...

Daniel

[Matt. K]

First image is just perfect.

[norwest]

I love the shot, but how did you burst the balloon and was it full of water or covered in water ect. ?

[bigsarg7]

I love the first shot!! So clever!! Number 2 looks great too but the hands so much dirtier from the colouring so that's why I like number 1 more! Well done with both how many attempts did it take?

[surenj]

Very neat!

Did you use a trigger/sound sensor to set off the flashes?

[Willy wombat]

Please tell us more about the set up!!

Congrats on POTW!!

[Big V]

Okay here is how it was done.
The balloon had blue water in it, just used some food dye.
Under the hand was a wooden block with a screw through it and this was protruding through the gap of second and third finger.
The block of wood was on a stand - used part of a kids play gym!!!
This was covered by black cloth
Flashes were connected to a camera axe box but were fired manually due to many of the balloons not breaking until they had bounced off the hand and onto the floor - we were doing this ooutside
Flashes (3) were all set to 1/128th power
Balloon was dropped from a height of around 60 cm and when I saw the balloon hit the hand, fired the trigger
The camera was set to bulb and shutter opened for count down of balloon release and then closed once flash had been fired.
So in essence you can do this manually...and balloons are much tougher than they look.

[surenj]

Thanks BigV for the explanation! I really like the light on this and wouldn't have guessed it's 3 flashes.

[Willy wombat]

Thanks for sharing your setup!

[Big V]

Happy to help.

[zafra52]

You shattered my imagination. I thought
it was a real planet exploding
But they are still extraordinary pictures!

[Big V]

My telescope is not large enough to image exo plantes!!!