Pumpkin Lamp

great piece of work and effort BB !!

Great concept! Great work BB!

very cool billyboy, well thought out…

You are the master of imagination BB!

HA HA HA LOVE IT!!!! Great concept and capture! That bulb shattering is incredible!

Wow, lots of planning resulted in an amazing image, I’m very impressed.

Thanks guys! This is a throw back from the way I used to enjoy working… maybe I should get more back into it…

Fantastic work – Brilliant!

Stunning and really fun photo, so creative – great work!

fantastic!

funny, well composed !

Fantastic!

Great Image!

Awesome…perfect capture..

this is great. We recently had an exhibition at my art school that was fool of electrical dealies that were all powered by fruit & vegetables

this is amazing, can you elaborate further on “copper foil switch opposite. When the pellet hit the switch, it triggered my flash”

I am not clear on how the pellet triggered the flash

??

so clever and a brilliant picture!

Awesome! Very creative billyboy! :D

that’s just bizarre….. in a really cool way, of course

no photoshop! you are a rare breed! excellent idea and stunning work!

Now this is an amazing piece of work you have here. In awe of this one. Awesome!

Super work… Love it so much!

hey that is tops gr8t idea and pretty clever

So incredibly clever!! I want one of those pumpkin lamps (my zucchini lamp burned out).

Thanks everyone for making my day with your comments!

Derid, the zucchinis do tend to burn out even when you go to a higher voltage bulb. But the pumkins you gotta watch… I ran my airco for a week off this rig. Just so long as the Russians don`t find out, so let`s keep this between us for now… I suggest you wait till Nov. 1st when they`ll be going cheap!

Wow, electric light pumpkin.

impressive

Wonderful :) Very nice idea and effect

Amazing work – what a concept.

“the zucchinis do tend to burn out…”
LOL

Very well done.

WOW, brilliant idea, excellent result, looks perfect!

Fantastic fantastic fantastic!

amazing shot!... it looks like it must have take you ages to do….... great colors, good idea done very beautifly

Many thanks all of you for liking this and for the encouragement.

Thorley, the copper switch is two pieces of thick copper foil, 20×20 cm square, separated at the top by a 1 cm thick length of plastic, and hanging parallel to each other from a stand. A wire is connected top each piece at the top, and the other ends of the wires connected to my flash trigger. When the pellet hits the foil, the two pieces make momentary contact, thus closing the circuit and triggering the flash. The speed of the pellet insures that the glass is caught frozen in mid flight. Piece of cake. Used this same technique in Midnight Cocktail, and this was a glass full of water so the effect was much more impressive.

Lucia, making the shot didn’t take long. Cleaning up afterwards did, as I shot 6 bulbs to make sure I had a good shot. I’m still finding bits of glass in the kitchen, and in the end, only this shot of the 6 that worked. Shows the value of perseverence!

Cool! :o)

wow such a great idea and all over perfect shot!

Mate, you have way too much spare time on your hands….LOL! Thank goodness for that too, otherwise we’d never see these outstanding shots! What a fabulous setup!

As usual, quirky creativity, billyboy. I laugh everytime I see this. What took you so long to put it up?

It’s definitely an area you should return to from time to time.

very cool & well done :)

Thanks so much Helen, Heather, Mel, Jan and Devique!

I thought this was a new jack-o-lantern until I read of your experiment…fascinating image and what a shot!

Thanks for the tip billyboy, I have loved photographing things burning breaking splashing and always will. What I do with the splashing is quite easy because it is so slow but your method is fantastic. Sadly I am not sure if I can explore this with my battery powered 580ex speed light.
But techical limitations can be the birth of invention and an asset to the open minded.

Incredible! I would love to do something like this. I need to study up on high speed photography and see if I can pull something like this off too. Great shot!

AWESOME!!! thanks for sharing the background story too, makes it even more awesome!!! respectful bow.

awesome.. everyone should have one of these!!!!

BRILLIANT photo! very very well executed! AWESOME shots

this is awesome

Very creative. It must have taken a lot of preparation to insure it would work on the first shot. If you try something like this again try and get a macro of the bulb exploding.

This is great! Very imaginative. So this is how you pass the time when it’s raining in Brussels?

well – all I can say is “I’M IMPRESSED”!

The things we do for our art!! Super shot.

Stunning shot – so creative. Bravo

That’s a stunning work! And the best part is that it looks like you had a lot of fun making it. ;)

This is bloody fantastic!

Wow thats cool :) and sounds like fun….

Oh, I like it.

wow!! amazing image!!!

oh i missed this babe…loving the whole steam-punk feel…perfect

OHHH HAHA…YOU are so very creative BB, wonderful and such a unique image!!!

Perfectly done

Wow! Such a creative piece, awesome composition!

This is fantastic!! Don’t know how I missed it!!

I know right ( as my daughter would say:)
I have been on the road a lot visiting my daughter at college and shooting their football , but it was football in the rain and snow yesterday so skipped it, always protective of my gear! Hope u have been hunky Dory!

That blown glass is just awesome!

Bizzare and Beautiful!

Awesome! I’m lost for words.

whoa! what a shot!

So,,,,,,,, did you get into trouble with this one?? Lol. Wondeful shot. :o)

Fascinating work!!! I’ll bet you have fun with all of this pellet shooting!!
Greatly creative!

:) what fun Billy…...hard work setting up for it paid off….Great job!! I love the frozen glass….

This is very, very impressive,
loved reading how you pulled this one off.

That is totally cool!! Thank you for explaining how you did that cause I was wondering how many shots you took. Incredible..

holy COW!!!! Good thing you don’t charge an entry fee and tuition here … oooooooo … sooo much to learn!!!!! WHEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful, so enjoyed the description
Will you add this to the group Light up my lIfe

Outstanding, this is the best I’ve seen.

wow

A piece of photographic genius, not least because it wasn’t made in photoshop!