Comments on: Creatively explosive fun http://onebrightspot.com/blog/2008/11/24/creatively-explosive-fun/ The Blog of Photographer Jacob Vorpahl. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:15:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary Evans http://onebrightspot.com/blog/2008/11/24/creatively-explosive-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Gary Evans Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:35:12 +0000 http://onebrightspot.com/blog/?p=424#comment-190 That's hilarious and brilliant, all at the same time. Like Don says, the method you employed for synching the slaved SB-800 was pure genius. I wouldn't have thought the explosion of light from the firecracker would have worked to trigger the speedlight, but hey, I just learned something today :-) I'm thinking that one of the other challenges would have been achieving sharp focus in your near dark environment. I can remember trying to do something similar when some friends and I froze a few roses in liquid nitrogen and shot them with a pellet rifle, hoping to capture the moment of impact while freezing the action with a monohead strobe. Good times :-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/provia400f/363317184/in/set-72157594489758674/ Cheers ~gary That’s hilarious and brilliant, all at the same time. Like Don says, the method you employed for synching the slaved SB-800 was pure genius. I wouldn’t have thought the explosion of light from the firecracker would have worked to trigger the speedlight, but hey, I just learned something today :-)

I’m thinking that one of the other challenges would have been achieving sharp focus in your near dark environment. I can remember trying to do something similar when some friends and I froze a few roses in liquid nitrogen and shot them with a pellet rifle, hoping to capture the moment of impact while freezing the action with a monohead strobe. Good times :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/provia400f/363317184/in/set-72157594489758674/

Cheers
~gary

]]> By: Don http://onebrightspot.com/blog/2008/11/24/creatively-explosive-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Don Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:50:57 +0000 http://onebrightspot.com/blog/?p=424#comment-176 Very cool. Firing the flash with optical sensor is genius. I would have never thought about doing it that way. Very cool. Firing the flash with optical sensor is genius. I would have never thought about doing it that way.

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