colin cameron photography

This is me shooting a pint of lager with an air rifle. I probably spent more time setting this up than any other shot. I used an audio trigger which fired a couple of flashes upon the sound of the gun firing. I practiced for a long time by shooting plastic cups, the timing was very hard to get right and I only had one glass. Its one of those times i had my heart in my mouth going for the shot but then danced around when seeing the result! http://www.phototrigger.co.uk/

Milk Saucer

This is a milk drop collision. This happens when a drop of milk enters a cup of milk, the drop then rebounds upwards and collides with another drop coming down. The timing for these is critical and I use a kit called SplashArt. http://www.phototrigger.co.uk/ This all happens far too fast for even a camera so the shot is taken in near darkness, the kits fires a few speedlights to capture the action, its about 1/10,000th of a second.

This is a few layers blended. First I took a shot of the car with the lights on, then I used a Maglight with a white card reflector and walked past the car a few times to get those shiney lines, after that I went around the back of the car waving around a colour changing light wand to make the coloured ribbons. Once all the photography was done I layered all the frames in Photoshop and set the blending to 'lighten'.

This orb was lightpainted using my butchered P7 Lenser with some Quality St wrappers for colour, swung around on the end of a dogs lead...

For this shot I walked into the frame and 'drew' around the bench with a Lenser V24 light wand. Again, it was pretty dark and I was dressed in black so the camera wouldn't pick me up, I wasn't quick enough though and if you look closely above the bench it looks a little smudged, thats me...

Here I walked around the digger lighting various parts with a torch and coloured gels, the 'fire' on the wheels was made with an LED lightstick. This exposure was about 5 mins long and it was really dark, thats why you don't see me in the frame although I was walking around in it quite alot.

The firey sparks here are made by spinning burning wire wool, you can find out more about that here; http://photoextremist.com/steel-wool-photography-tutorial The coloured lines on the ground were made with a coloured torch and the blue 'orb' was made by spinning a light in a vertical circle while walking around in a horizontal circle. heres a vid; http://vimeo.com/21438228