Thank you, Jean. The most difficult part was anchoring the popper so that it didn't fall off the stand when I pulled its string!That's a clever bit of photography! Well done on getting the timing right, and a good take on the theme. I'm glad I didn't think of it, it sounds very complicated.
Jean
Thank you, Peter. I read somewhere that the duration of my flashgun (SB600) is about 1/830, and extrapolated from there. However I have since had a look at the manual which says that the duration doesn't halve each time that you reduce power, and that at 1/64th power it fires at 1/25,000. Still fast enough, fortunately. I've emended my original post.
Thank you, Nicki. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I sat the popper in a tap washer stuck on to a black music stand with double-sided tape. The camera was mounted diagonally on a tripod a few feet away, with the flashgun in the hot shoe, and I did it at night so that the very short flash froze the movement - and also gave a black background. With a cable release in one hand and the popper string in the other...BANG!This is great and as I am a lover for coloursfits the theme and very well taken, I wish I could do something like this.:shrug:
Dude, that rocks
As has been said already, lovely colours and the black background is spot on.
Excellent take and great timing too
Thank you, Andy. Once I had stopped pulling the stand over it only took about 6 attempts, surprisingly. Sometimes the streamers exploded in tiny shreds, and the colours varied quite a bit - this was the best one.
Thank you, Sarah, SarahL and Dan. It took longer to rig up the music stand for the popper than it did to get the picture. And I had to be very careful not to kick the tripod over while I was stumbling around in the dark with a torch.
Thank you, Sonia. My first idea had to do with catapults and light bulbs but I had second thoughts.Brilliant idea and execution.....I was contemplating something similar with a canon....but unfortunately I couldn't get one on Ebay in time
Thank you, DamienI prefer the 2nd version....
I love abstract "head scratchers" like that, I'm a (former) musician myself but I'd never have guessed that one! :shake: Good colours and a nice clean overall shot!
Thank you Darren - I only came across the chess set a few weeks ago!
Thank you, JennyShoot: Very clever shot. I love the colours against the black background. Excellent.
Single: I like both but marginally prefer the second. However, I would not have had any idea what the second one was. I love the colours and the lighting is spot on.
Well done with both weeks
Jenny
Thank you, Rob. The first one was really a test shot for the lighting, as I still hoped to find the chess board... Well done for recognising the piano!
Thank you, Michellegreat lighting on the first shot.. doesn't really bother me its not on a chess board, the B+W of a checkerboard might have had more impact perhaps, but the focus for me is the bishop so not sure i'd have noticed it too much??
nice crisp shot for the second, would have had no idea what it was.. great light and colour.. the first one for me though
Thank you, Paul
Thank you, Steve. Wait till you have children -- you will lose all sorts of things...How on earth do you have the chess pieces but not the board?
A clever idea and nicely list but wouldn't have figured out is was a TP board without you pointing out. Has got me thinking about how it would have looked with perhaps the king alone on the board with the opposition bearing down on him.
Thank you, SoniaAs seems to be often the case Sarah has said it all...(and probably far better)
The incongruity is fine, but I think you would have got more of a wow factor on a chess board, and I guess everytime you read that type of comment, you're banging your head on the wall. Sorry 
The lighting on the first Single shot is excellent, highlighting his lordship without blowing him out!
The second one is excellent - an interesting photograph, well composed, beautifully lit and a good contrasting range of textures. The back story completes it - and I never realised how piano strings are arranged on a grand. Is it the same on an upright?
Jean
. It was a useful exercise in low-light togging but I hope to reshoot this subject sometime.
Thank you, Paul. I go back to Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men.
Thank you, Sarah
Thank you, Jenny - it does look realistic, doesn't it.
Shoot: great shot, capturing the colour and action in this shot, would have drove me crazy trying this, well done
Single: like the Bishop but not the board, maybe simply alone on a table would have been better, just seemed out of place
Stare: nice use of light and subject - would you really want to be that close to a REAL sheep with those horns!?
Thank you, Phil
