High speed Photo shoot in the studio.

The aim of this photo shoot was to capture in the form of a picture a plum landing in a bowl of water creating a splash,the reason we used a high shutter speed (1/250 of a second) was to capture all of the quick movements of the water spraying into the air however we couldn't use any higher of a shutter speed for example 1/1000 of a second because it would have been out of time with the flash.

Materials we used:
  • Nikon D750 full frame DSLR
  • Camera flashes
  •  Flashes
  • Infrared sensor (infrared trip wire which triggers the flashes when the IR beam is interrupted)
  • Tripods x3
  • One plum
  • Clear bowl filled with water about 20cm deep

The shoot required 3 people for different jobs:


  • One person was in charge of the camera (settings, focus, framing the picture)
  • One person to drop the plum into the bowl of water
  • and ne person to reset the flashes after they had been triggered
This shoot went well because I was able to show and capture the exact moments at which the plum had landed in the water, I also think this shoot went well because the bright colour of the plum massively offsets the dull background directing the viewers eye to the main focus f the image.

This shoot could possibly have gone better simply due to the fact that we were unsuccessful in framing the images in a visually appealing way, this could have created a uniform and aesthetically appealing image which seems a much higher quality.

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