This past weekend I decided to try out some high speed photography. To make this shot I used my SB’s 800 and 900 as my two light sources since they have a very short flash duration at low power. I had a hard plastic tray as the base so that I could fire the sb-800 from under the glass and to contain the light I used some cine-foil to make a snoot. To hold the tray up I used a set of saw horses and used a magic arm and super clamp to place the flash in the right place. For the key light I used the sb-900 with  a LumiQuest Mini Softbox attached to the D300 via a Nikon SC-29 sync cord. I used the cord so that I set the shutter speed as high as I need to because there was a lot of ambient light in the room. To fire the D300 I used pocket wizards to shoot remotely. I had the 70-200mm on the camera as well.

To get the effect of the beer shooting out I used a air compressor while firing at 8 fps to get a wide range of options.

Here I have a screen shot of the layers for the Photoshop file.

Here are the three images that I used to put the final image together.

My friend Brian von Glahn came with me and shot this time lapse of the shoot.

Tags: High Speed, Studio

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