Some pictures of Diana and Myself, where we now live and places around us, things that we find interesting, amusing or just plain weird!
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
A Quick Question,
without looking any further what is the image below? as the article mentions it may be a fruit, but this shot is taken in the dark, the camera shutter is open, but recording nothing as there is no image to record, a bank of flash guns meanwhile is waiting to be triggered, not by some one pressing a button but by sound, photographer Edward Horsford decided he wanted to take a picture of how water would look at the moment a water filled balloon was bursted with a pin, but with no success until he hit on the idea of firing the flash guns when the sound a balloon makes when popped triggers them to work,
this picture is more of a give away, 'as it's a rather messy process, I have to shoot outside,' said Mr Horsford, 'the irony of the shoot is that while they are bright and colourful I spend all this time working in the dark,’ the pictures are taken at an incredible 1/40,000ths of a second, not the speed of the camera or shutter but the duration of the flash, another big factor is luck, all balloons burst differently, and the water goes in different directions, he said, 'if I have a specific image in mind, it might take quite a few tries to get what I imagined,' what a fascinating idea to have sound trigger the flash and for me great pictures.
as the article mentions it may be a fruit, but this shot is taken in the dark, the camera shutter is open, but recording nothing as there is no image to record, a bank of flash guns meanwhile is waiting to be triggered, not by some one pressing a button but by sound, photographer Edward Horsford decided he wanted to take a picture of how water would look at the moment a water filled balloon was bursted with a pin, but with no success until he hit on the idea of firing the flash guns when the sound a balloon makes when popped triggers them to work,
this picture is more of a give away, 'as it's a rather messy process, I have to shoot outside,' said Mr Horsford, 'the irony of the shoot is that while they are bright and colourful I spend all this time working in the dark,’ the pictures are taken at an incredible 1/40,000ths of a second, not the speed of the camera or shutter but the duration of the flash, another big factor is luck, all balloons burst differently, and the water goes in different directions, he said, 'if I have a specific image in mind, it might take quite a few tries to get what I imagined,' what a fascinating idea to have sound trigger the flash and for me great pictures.
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