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A glass of wine
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I’ve been wanting to try this for ages so finally cleared the kitchen this evening and away I went. I’m quite happy with myself if you must know.
Alan
Lovely…
You’ll have to tell us how now…
In the meantime, I think I’ll pop off and get myself a glass. Looking at this
has given me quite the thirst…jb7 wrote:
Looks like there might have been a little cleaning up to do…
Lesson one – clean up the place and glass after every shot.
Lesson two – use less food colouring…it’s a b***h to get off your hands…I look diseased.
Lesson three – Clear out anything within a 6ft radius that might, just might get a little pink spot on it :oops:
Lesson four – send the wife and kids to the pubSo yes, I can’t argue with your comment Joseph. I’m all argued out for the evening…
Rob wrote:
Lovely…
You’ll have to tell us how now…
.I bought myself one of these about 18 months ago but never built it. I did last Sunday and went in search for a use for it…the results of which you see.
The method:
I used a marble worktop saver to tape the glass to (duct tape). I then placed 2 vitamin containers underneath this to allow it to roll. This was rolled into a board against a wall which made a bang…and triggered the kit which triggered a flash which was behind and below the glass pointing up at the background.The background is the white surface of a mounting board.
Once you bang the granite into the board the water flies up vertically from the glass. A trial and error will give you an indication of the force needed and also how much water is needed (1/2 fill the glass). Also with the kit you will need to adjust the delay so that it flashes when the liquid is at it’s highest point.
In the meantime the camera is in manual mode, pre-focused on the glass. I used a 2 second timer (to give you time to grab the granite) with a 3 second shutter speed…forgot to mention this is done in darkness. So once the flash fires the backboard is illuminated and gives you what you see above.
The room doesn’t need to be in complete darkness and also if you keep your flash at it’s lowest power it shortens the burst of light which in turns dictates your exposure time…so effectively you could have a 1/20,000sec exposure or more.You don’t need a granite slab – any board will do. Also with the splashing the tape will loosen so at the end I had my hand holding it in place below the view of the camera.
Alan
Very cool Alan.
It’s always good when ideas can be finally seen in pictures.Not sure I can say much more about it. Just cool.
Sinead
Well Alan, that looks like one for posting to the Projects section-
don’t suppose you photographed the process?I’m sorely tempted to post my picture of McIvor here,
but that would just be so wrong…I’ll be doing it again Joseph and photographing the process was something I was considering but yes, I will post in projects when the family are out and all memories of stained linen are long forgotten.
Alan.
very inventive alan,
really good result too!
i think there could be endless results from this experiment.cool is right.
Alan
aoluain wrote:
i think there could be endless results from this experiment.
Alan
Absolutely! I reckon replacing the microphone with a home made contact block (2 foil lined pieces of card with minimal spacing between them which make contact with an impact) would have useful results with dropping objects…bulbs, tennis balls, etc.
The next step though is bursting water balloons. I’ll need to cordon off the bathroom for that one though.
alan.
Hi Alan,
Your Photo is amazing, and the method of capturing the image is ingenious. Thanks for sharing.
Sound like you have plenty of fun planed for the future.
Regards
Richard
Almost making me thirsty ! .. i say almost ‘cos the liquid is a little “blood” red for me … but you could tweak that ;)
Class job !
L
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