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.
John Johnston
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28-Jul-2004 22:58
Awesome! I think you need the gun in the frame to show what created the impulse of energy. Who had to clean up the mess?
Kid, you'll shoot your eye out! That's an excellent photo, though I personally would have tried to frame it without the gun. I find it's distracting me from the egg, but maybe that's because I like guns. (That looks to be just a BB/pellet gun, I take it? Probably wouldn't be much of the egg left otherwise.)
Hi John,
Boy, this theme is getting dangerous! I am wondering whether anyone's house has been burnt down or anyone got injured or killed in the process!
If these two don't fit the theme, I don't know what else will! Brilliant.
The first shows the blast very well but I like this one better although it's a bit of a messy mess! :-) The only thing that is a bit distracting is the cloth. It might be better if it is just plain. Just a thought.
Cheers
Mattana
Great idea! Very nice image, I think I like this one better, and it probably should have been I rather than II. The only thing that would make this any better was to actually capture the bullet. How many dozen eggs did you have to go through to get this?
