Recent content by ascorbic

I actually worded that wrong. Rather than a 30% increase, I should have said that this was giving around a 30% drop, so quite a big difference there. But yes, I agree. Really we needed a whole day to play around with arrangement, timing and everything. Even a reflector would have helped a lot...

I have some good news about the power though. I've been doing some more testing this week and it turns out I'm getting less power from this prototype than from the previous, non-pretty one. From looking at the waveforms it's clear that this is because the rise time is a lot slower than in the...

Well, I had fun at the range last night! I only had an hour though, which was pretty frustrating, as it took quite a long time to get everything set up and all the timings working with the triggers. However I did manage to get some shots I'm happy with. I'm hoping to arrange a full day there...

I'm shooting tonight! I visited the club last week and met with the secretary to arrange it all. Very excited.

This isn't meant to replace your speedlight or studio strobe. It is a specialist device for high-speed photography, and has lots of advantages over the alternatives.

I manually pressed the shutter, with a 2 second exposure on most of them. The flash was triggered with a sound sensor. I mainly use a DIY trigger, though some of the better shots were done with a Triggertrap Ada prototype.

I would *love* to see shotgun pics taken with it. These shotgun photos taken with an airgap flash are stunning: http://kuulapaa.com/home/highspeed/Misc.html

Yeah, that's what I did do. The problem is aiming the gun at the right point on the grape! Some of my earlier pics have the gun in a vice, which helped when I was shooting in my "studio in a box".

It is certainly designed for closeup, but most bullet stuff would fall under that. I took exactly the same judgement about the ISO issue. High speed is always a balance between brightness and speed, and I think that with these latest LEDs it was finally bright enough. Hopefully in the next year...

That's referring to this shot, btw. Photoshop seems to have stripped the EXIF from that. https://www.flickr.com/photos/velalabs/15742941227/

If it's the EXIF you're after, there's a few on Flickr, e.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/velalabs/15785759976/

Re advertising packages: please do!

It's an Olympus raw file. Maybe you'd have better luck with Lightroom or Aperture?

Yes, you're right. I believe this range is only licensed for .22s. Even if it's not high velocity it will at least give me a chance to prove that it works with real bullets. Bigger stuff would be the next step. Some help there would certainly be appreciated. I see you're in Bradford. I'm in...

Hi, I'm Matt from Vela. I just spotted this and thought it would be good to drop in and answer a few of the questions posed in the thread. As you can understand, the reason the photos are all done with a BB gun is simply because I don't have access to real firearms. The reason I can confidently...