I like I better than II. Has more impact (pun intended). You really get that sense of the egg exploding on impact of the pellet. The Gun adds drama and completes the story within the picture explaining why the egg is exploding.
There were many eggensteins sacrificed for this shot. None could be recycled for omellets. They were blasted all over the lawn as we tried different power settings on the pellet gun. We went through about a dozen eggs,several plums and tomatoes. My 11 year old daughter and I considered the Theme for a bit and settled on the idea of an egg shattered by the impact of a pellet. Our first intention was to capture the pellet exiting the egg after creating some havoc. We set the Minolta to UHS continous advance at 1/1000 hoping that would do it. We never could capture the trajectory or the pellet therefore we were lacking the Impulse (and eggs). We had alot of spectacular exploding egg shots but no reason why. Molly suggested bringing the gun into the shot and viola' we had our impulse. The trajectory path was added in photoshop. I found my A2 would default to 1/60 s after powering off to set up another egg and I forgot to bump up the shutter for Eggenstein I. Shooting in the drive mode of UHS, we would get four shots of the egg in it's progress of disintegration. My favourite shots are actually the egg matter in it's final stages but they didn't meet the theme. Shooting in this mode is fun but at the price of lower resolution. Amazing what this camera can do. And my daughter can look back one day and laugh at the circumstances she first learned to use the sites on a gun.
Just to be different I think I prefer this one! The splattering effect is just great. So - just how many omelettes did you make on this 'shoot' :-) Slartibartfast
