Egg pierced by cal .177 pellet

Using a timer circuit connected to the Nikon SB-600 flash. Pellet

velocity is about 100 m/s.

 

Comments appreciated.

Awesome!!!

Excellent photo! Your image proves that it is not necessary to spend enormous amount of money on equipment to take great high speed shots.

 

Could you please tell me a little bit more about the timing circuit you used. I too have a D70 and SB600 and would like to try this type of photography myself.

Thanks for commenting. I set up a webpage with some details about the experiment (including a schematic) here:

 

http://valhalla.cs.abo.fi/~joheriks/hispeed1/index-en.html

 

The timer circuit is built from cheap standard components. The most expensive part (about $7.00) was the fast solid-state relay (a sort of opto-coupler) that isolates the timer circuit from the flash. I'm not super-savvy in electronics so probably the circuit can be much simplified.

Thanks for sharing the info. rgds, Mike

Great capture! I don't think I've ever seen a photo like this before. Many thanks for sharing the technique. I wish I had the skills to do this set-up.

Awesome photo. I assume you are familiar with the work of Harold Edgerton? He was using strobe lights to take similar pictures at the M.I.T. in the 1940s.

Why does the attached picture appear as part of my previous comment?

hey there - great work. i'm always glad to see people doing high speed photography and building triggers [you might like my gallery 'frozen', which also has links to some laser-based triggers i've designed]. for those out there that want to get into this and are not into making the triggers yourselves [which is usually the difficult part], there are many places available [such as http://www.woodselec.com/, which i've used and recommend] that offer single audio/light based triggers, very easy to use and set up. Note if you want more detail/crispness, this type of flash is not going to get much faster - certain other 'regular' flashes like the vivitar 285HV get down to something around 1/100,000 of a second, but to truly get a bullet in focus you're going to need closer to a microsecond [i have some examples of this in that gallery]. Anyway, some specific thoughts about this photo - I would have liked to see a slightly wider view, to catch everything spitting out of both ends, and the dark spotty backdrop with a solid black shadow looks a little off to me, as if you have photoshopped out the backdrop noise just around the exit hole; i think getting rid of the other backdrop noise might help for this subject, otherwise possibly using a reflected/more diffuse source would even that out more and make it less of a noticeable point [for me]. Also, i would have liked to see the flash faster, so that all the fragments had no motion blur. Anyway, i enjoyed seeing it - keep em coming.

Thanks for commenting. I found some intersting material on your page - seems like there is a lot to learn about this. Also, great gallery!

 

BTW, the photo has not been selectively manipulated. The noise in the backgrund eminates from the fibers of the cloth used as a background. Only the shadow area is true black.

wow. what can I tell more.. wow and Bravo.

Only I wish more space at sides to see the effect of cracking!

Thank you,

B:l:ana

Great working skills my friend, every thing is just perfect on his position. Great composition.

 

Regards

Thanks for sharing your techniques with us Johannes.

Super job. Sondra

i say just wow! WOW!

Truly an inspiration. I appreciate that you had an image in mind and developed a mechanical/electrical device to accomplish it. I would be interested in seeing more SHOTS.

Wow, excellent.

Thank you very much for your comments.

 

Robert: there are a few other shots of various objects in the same folder, but they are not as good. I have many ideas I want to try out, but the main priority now is to get a faster flash to improve sharpness.

Very nice