ophys Hello again. It's been a while since we did our last video but I just feel at the moment we just need to be doing something in the house and around the garden that keeps us busy at this interesting time so I thought we'd come into the garden on this sunny afternoon and pop some balloons full of water and just see if we can photograph the water hanging in the air before it falls. I mean the good thing about this is it's pretty good fun to be quite honest. You're going to get wet and there's going to be water everywhere. You're going to be very careful with your gear but you can actually get some pretty interesting pictures. So what do we need to do this kind of photography? Well the first thing I've got is I've built a bit of a frame out of a couple of light stands. I've got a bamboo can going across the top with a bit of wire on it and on that wire I've just put a studio clamp and that's what I'm just going to hang my balloons on. I've got a good stash of balloons which you can buy it at pretty much any shop so if you go for your essential shopping at Tesco they do sell balloons at Tesco that's where we get ours from. I've got two lights because what we're going to do here is we really need to freeze the balloon in mid air before it pops but also we do not want to have all this background. I've come for a fair I'm stood in the shadow at the moment of our house in our garden. We've got a lot of space in the garden but I've actually come into one little corner that's currently in shadow just to give me that little bit of extra light to deal with because what I'm doing is I've set my camera to some very interesting settings. So first thing I did was I played around my camera in manual ISO 64, F8 but what I've got here is 1,4000th of a second and what that's doing for me is if I take a picture with no speed lights, no strobe then the frame is completely black and that's really really important and that's the first thing you need to do when you set yourself up, get your camera out, get your balloon there, set your frame up and then take pictures with your camera on manual and just remove those settings down and down and down until the frame is completely black. And then what we're going to do is we've got that point, get your speed lights out and put your speed lights pretty close or you can do this with one light, it's a very sunny day today so I've actually got two speed lights out, but you can do this quite easily with one light and I've got each of the speed lights, point of the balloon and these speed lights, the power is set to a half on each light and I've got it on the system using triggers so I'm using my, these are pixel King actually and pixel King triggers on the bottom of each of the speed lights. Just no matter what speed lights you've got, I've got a Nikon SB 700 and this SB 800, pretty good lights to prefer, I love them, I prefer the 700 more than the 800 but that's just a personal choice but what with these triggers what that's going to do is when I fire the camera it will fire the light and the only light in the frame, although it's daylight out here, the only light in the frame is coming from the speed lights and what that's going to do is that's even though we were shooting at a 4,000th per second because the only light is going to come from the speed lights, the speed lights are going to go much much much much quicker than 1,4000th per second and that's really going to freeze the motion of the balloon. Now that's the camera settings, you are going to get wet doing this, it is going to be quite fun. So what you need to do is you need to judge yourself between pressing the button on the camera and pricking the balloon with your pin and you will get this wrong a lot of times because that happens so fast and you've only got literally 4,000th per second to capture it. So let's give it a go, this is a nice blue balloon. I've also got manual focus on by the way, for a side of this I focus on the balloon, waiting for it to steady itself, focus on the balloon and then drop myself onto manual focus just so that the when I pressed that button I know it's just going to take that picture. So we're going to be in and out quite quick because when that water hits the ground there's a massive splash and it comes right all over the place. So 3, 2, 1, there we go, I got wet then. So let's look at that image, well there we go, as we can see we've got the water kind of just hanging there in mid air just in space and the balloon itself has contracted so fast, it's just on one side of the image and all that water is just beautifully just hanging there in the sky in a dark background. So okay so I hope I hope you enjoyed that, I hope that gives you something to do, please have a go at that and you know get the balloons, get out in the garden, get a bit of fresh air, have a bit of fun, get wet and we'd love to see your pictures so yeah take a few and post them below and yeah see you next time, thanks for watching. Thank you very much for watching this video, if you have enjoyed it please leave us some comments down below, there's a button just there as well that you can use to subscribe to our channel and if you want to watch some more videos try these two because they've been picked from my channel that's hopefully you'll enjoy those. 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