Nancee Photoshoot

I had a most enjoyable shoot today with model Nancee. I'm still working on photo-editing, but here's a few of my favourites so far -

Day 133

The Cognisys Stop Shot controller, which makes possible the balloon shots, and others (even better) that are yet to come :)

More Pop

Playing with balloons again this evening - I only had six, but I'm reasonably satisfied with the results.  This time I was able to use two Nikon SB-26 strobes at 1/64th power to give better lighting. The flashes are triggered by sound - you can see the microphone clipped to the clamp that holds the balloons.

The mic is very sensitive indeed - in this one, the flashes were triggered by the sound of the pin making contact with the balloon, before it burst. You can see the depression where the point of the pin is about to enter the balloon.

Here, it looks like I'm about to be devoured by a purple Pacman, but I actually won this round :)

Day 132

Here is one of the Fantastic Four having a nap on a cap.

Day 131

This is Walter, another of the "Shop Fosters".

Day 130

This is Eleanor, one of the "Mustang Gang", relaxing on the cat tree.

Coin drop

My first attempt at using the Stop Shot. This is probably one of the simplest setups you can do with this gear, so I hope I'll improve and be able to show you some far more dramatic shots.

You can see the infrared transmitter on the left, and the receiver on the right. The coin was dropped from about a foot above the gate, and the flash was triggered by the coin passing through the IR beam.