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About This Page: This is a discussion on Computers/Tech/Photo within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Originally Posted by ValleyFan
...and the guy who's shots I wished I was getting with this can be found here .
What a cool job! Taking kitzchy cheesy cheap-ass crap-knacks
I dig both of those! Only thing would be to straigten up the "Beer Man" logo so that the vertical lines are, well, vertical. Other than that, those are sweet!
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ValleyFan, you and I were thinking along the same lines. I was thinking about doing some glass breaking stuff too, but I hadn't figured out exactly what I wanted to do yet. Thanks for the links. Interesting stuff! I bookmarked the triggering website.
Nice work, even with the problems. I think I like the glove explosion the best just because of the dramatic effect with the powder cloud. I was thinking about busting a light bulb or something, but timing it just right is tricky without special equipment. I was considering some kind of pendulum device to strike the bulb so that I could calculate the timing of impact. I have a time delay trigger which, if I account for shutter lag, I can calibrate to trip the shutter at the moment of impact. That way I can use the shutter to freeze the action rather than a flash. Your issue with flash duration can be a problem with conventional strobes. People don't realize that strobes have such a long pulse when you crank the power. They can freeze human motion fine, but forget about projectiles or explosions.
I did a course a few years ago at the Edgerton Center at MIT where we froze bullets as they went through fruit or split playing cards. They had specialized strobes that had only a half millisecond duration. They were like 30-40 years old. I wish I could find something like that on Ebay or something. I've looked but never found anything. In my lab we have some high-speed video equipment which can shoot 1-megapixel images at about 1200 pictures per second. You can do partial images at frame rates much higher than that. Shutter speeds can be set as low as 5 microseconds, but you have to have a hell of a lot of light for it. I have done some fun videos with water balloons, projectiles, etc. which I could post somewhere if anyone is interested.
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I'll be seeing THAT in my head for a while. Nice photo--and I'll bet y'all aren't having too much fun playing with that eye, eh? 
