Breaking Light Bulbs The Timmy Way
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admin on September 1st, 2008 in Photography.
Breaking Light Bulbs The Timmy Way
What, How do you dispose of them?
I’ve posted these before (or some of them) but it was eons ago and it wasn’t really about the bulbs, it was just to include some pictures in my first couple of posts for my site, http://www.timsdd.com/
So, I wanted to re-introduce you to my smashing of the light bulbs. Partially because they are some of my favorite pictures and also since they will most likily motivate me to go shoot some more of them.
I actually re-uploaded these to Photrade, I made the backgrounds darker and thus less noisy in some respects. It takes away a little bit of the detail from the shattering glass but I think the trade-off is worth it.
This one is an old vanity globe…tough suckers to break. I have a really weak pellet gun it seems as it took several shots on more than one occasion to incur breakage!
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I got lucky with this bulb, I was able to hit it with 3 shots that make it look like a sequence. It was rare that I was able to get more than one useable shot out of each bulb.
Sell photos on photrade | By timsdigitaldarkroom
Sell photos on photrade | By timsdigitaldarkroom
Sell photos on photrade | By timsdigitaldarkroom
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September 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
OK, give, how did you get the timing just right, or were you simply using the time lapse setting?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Nope! I took these with my big boy camera, the 40D. HOWEVER, you bring up a good point…while the timelapse setting would not do me any good (it only takes 1 frame every 1 or 2 seconds), the SD1000 camera does have a high speed function. It can take 60fps @ 320×240…where regular video is only 30fps.
For these shots I actually used the bulb setting (manual mode) on the camera. Fire the shutter, shoot the bulb, and here’s the ‘trick’ – I have a sound trigger rigged to my flash unit that firs the flash when there is a noise made. So really then only tricky part is getting the sensitivity of the sound trigger in tune to what you are demolishing
Once the flash fires it exposes the action and then you close the shutter.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 am
Cool, so the shot was taken in total darkness? I suppose you used infra red goggles so you could see the target? Or was there enough light to see what you were shooting at?
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:59 am
not quite total, I had a small desk lamp on. love to have me a pair of the IRG’s though
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 am
I’ll send you a pair when I blog my way to my first million
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Very nice!