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Water balloon

Water balloon at the moment it is shot by an air rifle.
Some photoshop clean up applied.

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Leif Westling 2 years ago

Great work!

Siavash 2 years ago

what was your stop-shot equipment? sound sensor? or infrared?

Lex Augusteijn I used home-brewed electronics.
A light beam is positioned in front of the barrel of an air rifle, which is then broken by the pellet.
After an adaptable delay, the flash is fired.

Wings 2 years ago

Marvelous moment of impact

Shirley S 2 years ago

How marvellous!!!

Leif Westling 3 years ago

wonderful capture

john allen 3 years ago

WOW!

John

mds 3 years ago

What a timing, amazing picture!

Lex Augusteijn Did you see my other picture? Even harder timing....

William Hallatt 3 years ago

I like how the bits of rubber add just enough colour and contrasting texture to the shot.

Savatage 3 years ago

Amazing shot i see more of this shots well done

Arnoud Delporte 3 years ago

You're not the cameraman of this commercial by any chance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhjyWnT-rr8
I saw a making of once, but I can't find it on youtube. They needed like a hundred flies for this.

Arnoud Delporte Here is how they made the commercial:
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/jeroen/The_Fly_making_of.aspx

Lex Augusteijn I have seen this stuff. Great work.
No I am not the camera man :-).
I prefer my flash over this amount of lighting, if only for my electricity bill.

Cupcake 3 years ago

Very Good~~~

David Donnelly 3 years ago

Amazing shot

Jure Kravanja 3 years ago

wonderful

Hur 3 years ago

Impressive! How is the light/cam and shot timed? :-)

Lex Augusteijn Using electronics. The rifle shot is detected by opto-electronics, which triggers when the bullet exits the rifle. After some adjustable delay, the flash is triggered.

Hur Thnxs. :-)

photoheaven 3 years ago

perfect shot!

Doug Roane 3 years ago

great job!

Tracy Martin 3 years ago

When I saw this it took me a while to figure out what exactly I was looking at, I had not read the title of the image or I would have known. Great stuff.

Sergio Ramari 3 years ago

Great effect

King Douglas 3 years ago

I take it that you weren't just standing around with your camera, alert for potential photos, when you saw this happening.

Don't listen to Jacob, unless what I'm seeing is the "improved" version.

Excellent work!

Lex Augusteijn Indeed, this was precisely orchestrated. Little chance for a lucky shot with these kind of events.
What you see is not the improved version, so I prefer listening to you ;).