Water baloon

Experiment of High speed photography.

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appreciated.Please view large image. Khawar

what a great and cool photo, thanks for sharing.

Successful experiment! It will be interesting if balloon some how suspended and not hand handled. But any way -- nice action shot!   

Best regards Saleem!

PDE

Very nice creative image. I think the red takes you away from the actual action. Maybe next time use a different colour on the balloon? Also maybe if you place some colour gel in front of your light source will give it more punch. Hope that helps. Regards.

Nice action shot.....6...

Hi Saleem,

According to the 8 second timed exposure, this is not high speed photography.

This is not macro photography either.

I have been doing high speed and ultra high speed (stopping bullets in mid flight) for many years.  What is typically done is that a dark room has the subject setup up with some sort of physical trip or photoelectric sensor trip mechanism to activate a powerful high speed flash unit.

 

The camera is focused on the subject with the lights on. Then, when the room is made dark, the shutter is open for a timed exposure. Soon after the shutter opens the event starts. The flash activates and captures the action as it occurs.

Now, the shutter speed on some cameras can act as the trigger for the flash as well.

There are other ways that I have done high speed work, including the use of independent shutter capable of speeds faster than 1/8000 second. The camera is shutter is opened, but the higher  speed shutter only fires upon the impact of an object with the subject.

I could write a book on this subject, but you need to better describe:

What the experiment was  and how you went about to accomplish it.

Best Regards,  Mike

Mike... what a comprehensive and very helpful explanation of high-speed photography and how it works... 

 

quite helpful

Amazing shot!

stunning timing!

Original and unusual image,max for this,regards.

RC

harika..

Shots like this remind me of Physics lab in college, so much fun to see what this stuff looks like in slow motion. You've combined a fun experiment with an eye for details in photography and made it interesting. There is a hand or something coming out of the lower portion of the splash that you might want to not be there in the next shot. Doesn't really do anything for the shot and is a bit distracting. Great job though. 6/7

wow...

Looks like a fun setup. I bet you had a lot of laughs with this. It's wonderful.

Nice catch Saleem, reminds me of this series on photographyblogger.net! If your original full-size image was more centered it would be interesting to see different crops, for example showing more of both hands/arms instead of almost cropping them out. And if you're planning more experiments, another possible way you could go about it is to make the arms near invisible by having the balloon-holding and -popping assistant wear black gloves & something with black sleeves, and set up a light source from the opposite side.

Great photo!

 
Dear Friends,

 The machine do not have a shutter speed to freez such action.  I actually kept the shutter speed of Canon 7D for 8 secs in a dark place. It is not the machine that makes the speed. It is Old canon flash speedlight  199a, flash speed is 1/15000 . You can refer to some webpages for high speed photography technique for more details. Regards...