I Shot a lightbulb... Heres some interesting pictures

[hoarp001]

Hi,

I shot a lightbulb today with a half inch steel ball bearing. The still frames I pulled off the camera are quite interesting....

http://www.peter-hoare.co.uk/Bulb.jpg
http://www.peter-hoare.co.uk/Bulb2.jpg
http://www.peter-hoare.co.uk/Bulb3.jpg

Its quite interesting how the ball drags all the glass fragments with it.


Let me know what you think,

Pete.

[spanerman]

nice to see that you registerd on Spud Files pete, i love the pictures one of them is know my desctop backround

[Fnord]

Where the hell did you get a high-speed camera? I want one 8)
You should try it with the lightbulb on next time, just use a marble to lessen the risk of tripping the breaker.

[hoarp001]

Its not a highspeed camera, I wish to god that I had one - I have been after one for years. This is just my broadcast camera on 1/10,000th of a second exposure and lots of light. I used these lights:

http://www.peter-hoare.co.uk/redhead.JPG

They are about 800w each and were very cloes to the subject to keep it well lit.

[Spedy]

Cool Pictures. Is that a metal barrel I see? Very nice.

[paaiyan]

That's pretty sweet, and I can see that the camera works very well. But how the heck did you get it to shoot at the right time? Or did you just do rapid fire snaps the whole time?

[spanerman]

I belive it is a video camera.

[paaiyan]

Also, if you had the object lit that well and it was still dark, what was your ISO setting? I can usually snap shots on 1/2000 in daylight and they come out brighter than that. Anyhow, just wondering what kind of camera you were using.

[hoarp001]

Im used one of these:

http://www.peter-hoare.co.uk/cameras2.jpg
(I run a video company)

and these l ights
http://www.peter-hoare.co.uk/redhead.JPG

Those are 800w redheads, but cheap halogen floodlamps will do it.

You need to flood the subject with light and use the highest exposure you can, i used 1/10,000th /sec

[paaiyan]

Oh my bad, I read it as 1/1000th. Haha, Now I know why it was dark, ok.

[jrrdw]

I think air still leaving the barrel pushed the glass more so then the glass trailing the marble.
Heres a test, shoot another light bulb, but this time put 10 feet of distance inbetween the muzzel and light bulb.
Then pull pics from that footage and see what it looks like, and your rite, very interesting.

[Flying_Salt]

Next time shoot a lit light bulb

Nice pics, and I agree with jrrdw, the air probaby pushed the fragments along.

[paaiyan]

Oh yea! A lit bulb. That would light things up a bit, bwahahaha... Sorry, bad joke. Please?

[mtronic]

Nic pics, i love slow mo, I have one of a tv exploding. very funny


very nice cams, although I'm a jvc person myself. But I only have 1 cam and dont use it for a my work. BTW what do you do hoarp001?

[Specialist]

um mtronic he said he runs a video company if you read closely. very nice shots. do you edit videos too? because i have final cut express HD (a mac software) and its great. its very professinal looking too.