I was surprised to find out that bulbs would bounce off my tile floor when dropped from 4-ft. Of course they shattered quite dramatically when dropped from 6-ft, with some essentially disintegrating. Apparently the balance spoken of lies within.
This was my first attempt at this type of capture. I was just fortunate to get three decent shots despite having only had 5 bulbs to work with (too cheap to use bulbs that still worked). Practicing with a less fragile object before hand was extremely helpful in sharpening my timing. I chose this entry since it retained more large pieces, and thus was most recognizable as having been a light bulb.
It's great to have a camera with the ability to use flashes at incredibly high shutter speeds. This shot was illuminated with two FL-50R wireless flashes in FP mode from the left: at floor level and above left, using snoots to help direct the light somewhat. Not sure if I could have gotten away with a slower shutter speed and larger aperture number (for better DOF), but I had too few bulbs available for experimenting, and I wanted to err toward effective stop-action.
PP in CS3:
Levels; Curves; Slight Noise Reduction; De-saturate (Yellow, Blue, Cyan); Remove hot pixels, Crop; Very Slight USM
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