Chalk - more information about triggering available at http://bea.st/sight/doubleTrigger/index.shtml and as always, other shots available at http://bea.st .

This must be around 1/25000 of a sec!

Excellent capture..

Suberb...i would love experimenting with these kind of shots..

 

Wow, brilliant shot (pun intended! :o) )

May be even about 50,000. The camera is open for 30 sec, it's a super-fast flash, and of course the laser trigger, that do the job!

Jeff,

Impressive capture! This is a highly specialized technique coming together with an artistic vision. I've seen many very interesing photos of experiments but they fail on the compositional and visual aspects.

Have you considered entering the Vision of Science photo contest? I see you winning! :-)

 

-regards, Gerard.

WOW~~ *____*b

Now that? Is so freaking cool!

I've always admired Dr. Edgerton's work and I'm convinced he'd LOVE this shot. Thanks for sharing data on the type of strobe used. I've got a few old Strobotacs I use and at 40 years old they still work great.

Also, I read your post on your trigger. Very nice work (especially the quick division). However, I can't help wondering if you couldn't place a third sensor exactly where you want the object in the photo during setup and calculate delay directly rather than through trial and error. Just a thought.

 

Brilliant work, Bert

 

 

thanks for your comment - it's a very good point that you make, and there is good reason that i bothered doing all the math instead of the direct measurement. I assume what you mean is to measure it with the last trigger where you want it, and then shoot the next one without the trigger around [so it doesn't end up in the shot]. However, you can't do this in a direct way unfortunately! Rifle bullets vary up to 20% in their velocity from shot to shot, so if you're measuring a distance of around a meter, that gives you about 20cm uncertainty in position if you only take a 'time delay' reading.. That's why i added all the math work, so that independent of speed, you can calculate position [familiar time = distance/velocity]. There is no trial and error involved, just a measurement of how far distance-wise you would like the bullet to appear, and then it takes care of the rest.. If you had another idea please let me know, i'm curious! thanks for writing- jeff

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Nice shot!! The picture is good too!

my fingers dont help me to writting!

First of all, excuse my poor English. I can't only look at this photo, I must speak and write, if not I'll die! I want to call this photo "Color Bang". It's difficult for me to get how is the chalks position they made beautiful abstract. Look at red powder behind white, wow! ... I can't write more, I can't write all I wanted and all I feel, and this is an AMAZING shot from my opinion. Now, your photo is my wallpaper and I don't know when another photo can get its place! even everyday looking at this, it's not enough for me.

Very artistic use of technology. Do you work in other media as well? Maybe you could shoot some acrylics or oils, perhaps "Bullet in Clay" could be your next series.....

 

Thanks for sharing these.

thanks all for the kind words - yes carlos, i work in other media :) I'll try to shoot some more interesting things soon enough.. these shots are actually quite old, I'll be putting up another recent series soon...

As I can see by the number of comments on this one I'm not the only one fond of it. This is my favorite "bullet" shot of yours. What a great idea and the colors against the black background are phenomenal.

Thanks for sharing

Mark

excelent very very nice!!!

Amazing !!!

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Shades of Edgerton - I love this!

One of the best pictures I've ever seen.