Balloon - created by LewisBroadbent


Balloon
Favs: 1SBS: 6Hi-resRank: 9/56Score: 67.6% (3)5873 views

(5 years and 2723 days ago)

avatar oziipop
oziipop says:

wow! great capture!

author says:

Thanks

(5 years and 2722 days ago)


avatar meatman
meatman says:

was that a water balloon ? wish ya had a high res of it.

author says:

Yes it was and I'll upload it later

(5 years and 2722 days ago)


avatar meatman
meatman says:

great photo and high score !! how fast was shutter speed ?

author says:

Thanks and I used 1/2500

(5 years and 2722 days ago)


avatar UncleJimmy

Meatman...it's not shutterspeed that 'freezes' the action, it's the flash....

author says:

Actually I didn't use a flash I don't own one I used a shutter speed of 1/2500

(5 years and 2722 days ago)


avatar UncleJimmy

Really author? no flash? and only a 1/2500th shutter-speed?!? what was your f/stop and light source...I'm VERY curious, perhaps what cam did you use too....I've been shooting for a couple of months and I can't see how this very High-speed shot was accomplished, would LOVE to see the original or Hi-Rez...

To have your shutter-speed that high w/o a flash, your light source must have been VERY intense and to keep the BG black without spill-over is a very neat trick...

author says:

Hi-res is up I was using f/5.6 with an ISO of 800 on a canon 50D I was using a black bed sheet about a foot away from the balloon. The only light source was the sun, which at mid afternoon was directly lighting the balloon. I did increase the amount of black in camera raw because some of the background had a very small colour cast

It also took a good few attempts to catch the balloon perfectly

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


I have a 50D also that I use as a back-up, been shooting it for 3 years, nice camera. Mine has close to 175,000 actuation's on it now and still works.

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


author says:

Yeah I love it and that's good to know because mine only has 20,000 because I've only recently got it.

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


avatar meatman
meatman says:

kool !! how did ya hold the pin and synchronize the shot with the balloon rupture ??

author says:

Well firstly there was a person holding the pin but I edited that out to give the image a better effect. And as for synchronisation, I was just taking the picture at what I thought was the right moment, sometimes I missed, but sometimes I didn't

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


captgeo says:

What do you mean you edited out the person?

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


author says:

Well, when I say person I mean that there was little bit of finger in the bottom of the image after throwing the needle. and I used the healing brush to erase it as I didn't want to crop anything off of the bottom of the image.

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


avatar meatman
meatman says:

OOPS, author !! Ya just left the cat out of the bag.

author says:

No, I just didn't word it correctly, silly me. There was only a little bit of finger at the bottom which I healed out instead of cropping because I thought that the composition looked good from camera.

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


avatar meatman
meatman says:

they say ya can only use the heal brush to remove dust and scratches from a scan or speckles from dust on your camera's sensor. i don't know about finger tips ! LOL !!!! maybe an sbs showing the original, and then a finished entry with just cropping used perhaps ??

author says:

Done it looks slightly different because of the tighter crop and the fact that I had to re-process it to make the sbs, but I made it as close as possible

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


avatar meatman
meatman says:

i believe that does the trick. great job and good luck.

author says:

Thanks you too... if you've entered :p

(5 years and 2721 days ago)


avatar Lelaina
Lelaina says:

Congrats for making it to the next round!

author says:

Thanks!

(5 years and 2717 days ago)


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