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Crystal sphere dropped on Glass. Just luck that the liquid stuck to the shape. What a mess. :D

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Ömer KESK?NSOY 1 month ago

you really did that? amazing...

Kanyi Benny Creppy 3 months ago

Just jaw dropping...

mostafa eldeeb 3 months ago

no comment

Morteza Araghi 5 months ago

wow!!! amazing...

amir gharahpour 5 months ago

PERFECT

behnaz karimi 5 months ago

amazing...!!!!

Aniket Bhalerao 5 months ago

amazing just love the way the glasses are scattering

Anoosha Mg 6 months ago

i love it!

Reihaneh Mahdinejad 6 months ago

cool

Sverre Hjørnevik 8 months ago

wow, great job.

Rafael Brunheroti 9 months ago

unbelievable! very cool..

Arpit Suthar 10 months ago

wow effect.............

Kayla Java 1 year ago

This is a great shot, wow.

Tony D 1 year ago

Super peice of work would love to know how you did it?

Louka Pics Photography 1 year ago

Just PERFECT !!

Iñigo Barandiaran 1 year ago

Amazing!, I can not imagine how to do this great shot. Congrats!!! :)

Sofian Anwar 1 year ago

Great....

Jimmy Cecilia 1 year ago

great photo!

Luca Bonisolli 1 year ago

Great! The perfect moment

Yasir Noble 1 year ago

ouh very good :)

Karen Khontyan 1 year ago

great photo.

dana-art 2 years ago

really fantastic

Nicole Goggins 2 years ago

incredible capture

Victoria Ivanova 2 years ago

Fantastic!

Rudolf Brosztl 2 years ago

wow! very nice shot. i Like it.

siavash_shojaee 2 years ago

very good

Lubomír Hnat (Cheron) 2 years ago

Superb shot !

pjgarcia 2 years ago

Another masterpiece, with an impressive fluid shape, and nice studio light. It's very kind from you to mame such a master explanation. Not everybody gives so many details about his "making of". Thanks a lot.

Tshuvi Kuba 2 years ago

crazy! love your work!

Willy Marthinussen 2 years ago

ohhch.. :)great work Dave

Francis Marquez 2 years ago

Damn that's good!

barbara 2 years ago

excellent.

CathS 2 years ago

Fantastic work.

Siavash 2 years ago

WOW Awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Zahra Kharaghani 2 years ago

Great, I want to know the speed and time of this pic please.

Dave Nitsche Ok... this might take a second. First, stop motion 'generally' isn't caught with shutter speed. Camera's generally can't get quick enough speeds to stop really fast moving objects. The shutter speed on this shot was a 250th I think. Not fast enough to stop anything really. The key to this kind of photography is "Flash Duration".

I use hotshoe flashes that I fire using a remote trigger. The flash duration (the length of time the burst of light coming out of a flash lasts) is anywhere from 1/500th of a second to 1/1000th of a second at full power depending on the flash you have. Modern flashes allow you to reduce the amount of light output. Its rated in Fractions on the flashes I use. 1/1 is full power, 1/2 is half power and it goes to 1/64th on some of my flashes and 1/128th on others.

When you decrease the output of the flash you're also decreasing the flash duration and it's almost exponential. Let's say my flash is 1/1000th of a second flash duration at full power. A chart showing duration would almost be (this is scientific by the way but close enough for an example)....

1/1 - 1/1000th of a second
1/2 - 1/1000th of a second (half and full have the same duration
1/4 - 1/2000th of a second
1/8 - 1/4000th of a second
1/16th - 1/8000th of a second
1/32nd - 1/16000th of a second
1/64th - 1/32000th of a second - quick enough to stop a hummingbirds wings in flight

Now, the problem with this is that once you decrease the power you're decreasing the amount of light the flash puts out. In other words you need a bunch of flashes to do shots like this. I think this was shot at 1/32nds power with about 6 flashes.

I hope this makes some sense for you. It aint' about the shutter, it's all about the flashes.

Mikhail Shlemov Thanks for explanation. It is really art work!

axilera awesome ... great knowledge sharing ...

Milla 2 years ago

Unmistakably yours.
Just terrific.

Dave Nitsche Thanks. Biggest compliment I can get. :D

Hardyono Maruf 2 years ago

great work..... nice moment....

Theofilus Irwan 2 years ago

amazing.....

Dave Nitsche Thanks Theofilus

konstantinos 2 years ago

Awesome Dave :)

Dave Nitsche Thanks Konstantinos

Sven Fennema 2 years ago

Would really love to stand in you back one day when you're in studio....always amazing

Dave Nitsche If you could put up with all the foul language I scream while I'm shooting you're more than welcome too Sven. Thanks

Sven Fennema Will get back to that if I manage to get to the US for sure :)

Mandy Schoch 2 years ago

Achoooo times 2!
So, so very impressive, Dave.

PS. Gesundheit... again :)

Dave Nitsche LOL... yeah this is like the sneeze that blows your head apart. Thanks Mandy

Ben Goossens 2 years ago

Incredible how you did this:-)
You are a magician!!

Dave Nitsche Thanks so much Ben!!!

Ivanov 2 years ago

It is not luck man , it is magic :)!

Dave Nitsche Thanks Ivanov

fulviopellegrini 2 years ago

great !!

Ursula I Abresch 2 years ago

Another glass down the drain! Oyyyyy. :)

Dave Nitsche Gotta love the sound of breaking glass!!! Thanks Ursula... :D

Dmitry Laudin 2 years ago

amazing!

Dave Nitsche Thanks Dmitry!

Ralf Stelander 2 years ago

So cool! Thanks for the explanation, I really wondered how you made that ball of liquid!

Dave Nitsche Just dumb luck really. LOL. Thanks

Jose Luis Cunha 2 years ago

fantastic shoot!

Dave Nitsche Thanks

pjgarcia 2 years ago

IMpressive light and fluid shape.

Dave Nitsche Thanks!!!

Ratko Nedovic 2 years ago

I like this how you did the mess and confusion of glass and drops.

Dave Nitsche Thanks Ratko

Heidi Westum 2 years ago

Quite a mess and quite a great highspeed photo :)

Dave Nitsche Thanks Heidi

Fabien BRAVIN 2 years ago

How amazing and creative your shoots are, Dave !!!
That's always with a great pleasure we discover a new production from you
Fabien

Dave Nitsche Thanks Fabien, you're very kind!!!

RomImage 2 years ago

well captured

psychodaddy 2 years ago

Cheers Dave!!:)
Fantastic shot!

Dave Nitsche Thanks!!

ahmad kheirollah nezhad 2 years ago

wow

very good

Dave Nitsche thanks ahmad

searcher of the truth 2 years ago

!!!very

Dave Nitsche Thanks

Peter Svoboda 2 years ago

fantastic captured explosion , I can imagine how many attempts you had to make..., outstanding work,compliments

Dave Nitsche Thanks Peter... not many attempts, I got lucky really. :D

Peter Svoboda I am sure that fortune favors only the successful one, I do not try it better,I think that my attempts would cause rapidly decrease my home glass reserves... :)

Iriansyah Chebonk 2 years ago

amazing pict!

Dave Nitsche Thanks Iriansyah