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26-JUL-2004 Philip Potts

Wheee by Philip Potts

Tried again. Used foam core board for the background and a 250 watt halogen light and a Sigma flash gun. Took about 20 tries before I could get this one. Changed the background color in PSE2 and resized.

Minolta DiMAGE A1
1/2000s f/4.0 at 50.8mm iso100 with Flash full exif

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Konica Minolta Users31-Jul-2004 14:19
A beaty Phil.
KeesZ1
Guest 29-Jul-2004 00:21
That is what I like about MTF there are folk like you who can bring a real humourous idea to life. But as commented below to meet the theme I would have liked to see some motion/energetic movement.
Claudio Gatti28-Jul-2004 23:30
Hi Phil,

Good to see you got a better one out of your efforts. I have never tried high speed capture and I imagine it's a tricky business.. I would have to agree that some motion blur would help giving it more sense of "energy"

Claudio
Konica Minolta Users28-Jul-2004 22:39
How about this: fairly dark room, black foamcore or cloth backdrop and floor, and use a longer shutter speed and rear sync flash? That should give you a nice blur and if you peg it right, you'll freeze the smiley face!

Patrick O'Leary
Philip Potts 27-Jul-2004 20:31
Thanks for the comments Bobby & Tom. I sort of agree with Tom: needs some motion just not keen on mouse blood! LOL I am going to try again with a slower shutter speed.
Tom27-Jul-2004 19:58
Good "idea" to theme, just doesn't seem to have the "energy". Think a dead mouse with blood flying through the air would have done it... maybe a mouse without a head and the happy face flying through the air... but that would probably take 120 trys. Nice image, just doesn't do it for me for the theme.
Bobby Johnson27-Jul-2004 14:51
Much better than the original, Philip! I know a lot of effort went into this shot, and it shows. The smiley on the ball makes it even better IMHO.

Good job!