High-Speed Photography by Ian Sailer
It's probably a safe bet that this guy has issues with Christmas, or, at least, Christmas ornaments. What is certain is that lan Sailer’s Flickr poses a serious threat to your productivity.
Sailer photographs the exact moment his rifle pellets collide with everyday objects. Usually, those objects are ornaments, and often, they are inexplicably filled with food-stuffs, like Jello.
"Well June to be exact. But it is nice and warm. Probably going to be a hot summer.
I found a string of large plastic Christmas lights at a garage sale Sunday for a buck.
Two flashes, one in a soft-box from behind, another giving some fill light."
"A large Christmas globe filled with lots of colored sand. This was the third try and a really had to crank up the delay.
The "delay" was about 22 inches beyond the globe or about 3 milliseconds. My normal pellet delays for something like this are about 0.3 milliseconds.
Lots of difference.
It was fun to see the sand cone that the marble makes from the air cannon point of view. Maybe some day I can make a picture of it."
"I was messing around with that tub of clear candle gel I got at a garage sale and wanted to try dipping a bulb into it.
I was hoping it would add an interesting explosion asymmetry.
No such luck, but this shot just looked too good. The gel made the lower half very reflective and saturated.
I will try actually embedding the bottom of the globe into the gel next time.
I am a sucker for the gelatin/globe combination."
"Yet another, another Christmas bulb filled with jello.
I had made up a bunch of these for Destin's high speed camera visit, but we did not have time to shoot them.
Waste not want not.
A big Christmas bulb filled with jello hit by a fast marble."
"Three colors of TiO2 spiked jello in a Christmas Bulb."
"By the way. If you had the choice of a pellet proof vest, which material would you pick?
Plywood or plastic rubber eraser?
The answer by my test is rubber eraser. The rifle I'm using now will go through about 3/4 inch of plywood. But only 3/8 inch of rubber eraser. I guess the eraser just absorbs more energy.
The pictures showing this event are just plain boring."
"What was cool was that the jello held the pieces of the bulb.together after the shot.
Little fractured jello shots."
"Why what is this?
A Christmas bulb filled with jello being hit with a pellet?
How unusual....
Its my problem, not yours...."
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