First: you never really want to break glass live. There is always the danger that you or your equipment will suffer damage. Then too, those fragments will lend where they will not be easily found. My advise: do not break glass for a shot instead:
go for the illusion.
Hammer has hole drilled and mounted on a piece of wood with a bolt and nut. This allows you to swivel it. You place it in the down position. You then gather broken glass from the bulb on a piece of cardboard, which was broken inside a brown paper bag. You have flash ready to fire independent of the camera. You put timer on and the moment the shutter opens you throw glass over the hammer head and fire flash. This freezes the chards. The exposure is 2 secs. You grab hammer by rear handle and move up timing yourself so that it will not reach a standstill position. Of course you compute the exposure by deciding how much time you need and then decide the dof then add whatever tungsten lights you need to execute. Mixing lights works well in a.e. because you can select the higher flash temperature or the cooler one and match them. In b.e. you are stuck with just the overall adjustment. This image was exposed to favor the tungsten because that is the bulk of the image. This left the falling glass too bluish. This area was selected and the w.b. adjusted.
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Dan,
I applaud you for the lengths you go to in order to perfect an image such as this, and could only aspire to someday be able to even come close to being able to do a shot such as this.
Your creativity is nothing short of amazing!
It's a shame that we can't see comments during the voting - had I known how you produced this I would have vote at least 2 points higher. I simply could not believe that this was a 2 second exposure - knowing how fast such an event would really occur.
Now that I know - WELL DONE, very creative!
Congratulations. One of my faves from the challenge. Not a landscape or watch shot, not that I didn't enjoy those but seeing something done different was fun.
Of course always do appreciate the details of the shoot you share with us.
What an AMAZING SHOT! I thought for sure this one would be one of the top 3! Congratulations on another top 10 -- in such a tough, high scoring challenge!
At reading the illusion of it, I'm doubly blown away.
I've got a shot that I want to do like this for my eyeglasses (since spending a boatload of cash on laser surgery) and this is the ticket to my future modus operandum. Sweet!
you're good at these, Dan!
Read your description and still dont think I could have pulled it off at all, lol. Congrats on the top 10 finish - well deserved.
Wow! Very cool. That is a lot happening in 2-seconds, isn't it! Great job. Very interesting. I wonder how many glasses you had to break to get this oh-so-perfect shot :) It was worth it tho. . .this is awesome!
I'm usually bored by the action-stopping strobe shots I see on DPC, but this one appeals to me. I like the contrast between the blur of the hammer and the crispness of the shattered bulb.
I would be very interested to see how you did this with a two second exposure. How did you get the bulb to be fozen in time while still showing the motion of the hammer???
Thanks for the PM explaining how you did this!!! You got me thinking about a whole new way to shoot! (bumping up)
Very well done. I give it a 10. I look forward to learning how you made this image. After I voted on all the images in the challenge for mine this is the best.
Pretty cool but I am not 100% fond of the composition, somehow I wanna see more of what is in the foreground, the lowest part of the shot. Nice stop motion though, I gave this a 7, technically it´s very well done.
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