Materials
Water, pan, air can.

Observations
I think this one may be my favorite of this series. I especially like the big vapor bubble that forms in the back, camera left. The globules of water floating through air look neat too. The pattern of the splash is so unlike a normal splash in these instances.

Materials
A dock and a pond.

Procedure
Instruct a man to jump off a dock. It is quite amazing what one can get people to do if one has a camera. People seem to feel quite natural and somewhat fearless in front a camera. I can’t explain it, though it would be interesting to listen to someone who can. Perhaps one of our readers is a psychologist and can illuminate this for us.

Observations
This shot is another great look at the muscles of a well toned person. The subject in question has over years of farming toned his body up quite completely. Makes for an excellent video subject for a study in bio-mechanics. I plan on subject Matt to many more indignities over the years for your viewing pleasure. Next time I think I’ll make him take a few swings with a bat at a small, round moving object. Again, the splash is wonderful as usual. The light catches it all nicely. Poor Matt in this shot was unaware that the pond was only a few feet deep, much to his surprise. Sadly I don’t have enough disk space to export the entire clip (yes I filled up yet another hard drive, over 1TB of data now!) but I still have the original so when my new drive shows up I’ll re-export this shot and do a close up on his rather surprised face. It is quite amusing.

Materials
A martini glass, some red food coloring and some sprite.

Procedure
Place a few drops of food coloring in the base of the glass. Pour in the sprite.

Result
I chose red food coloring initially to make sure it showed up against blue however it worked out wonderfully as it looks like the clear sprite is picking up the color from the glass itself. Initially there was much more footage to this particular shot but in my zeal to clean up I unplugged the wrong cable and cut the power to the camera, cutting of the saving of the files. Since these cameras store the footage in volatile RAM, cutting the power clears your footage. Oops. The flicker is a result of using those FotoDiox Cool Light’s, one of these days I’ll hopefully be able to replace them with some respectable HMI Lights.

Materials
King, a pine cone and a pond.

Procedure
Throw the pine cone, then giggle as does some really silly things to try and grab it.

Observations
Dogs do some rather odd things to pick up something thats been intentionally thrown to the ground. This is certainly no exception. I like this shot because it allows us to again look at the muscles in the dog and how they move and shift under his skin. Its also a rather amusing shot, for obvious reasons. King, while huge, is still very much a puppy and the awkwardness that comes with that territory is evident in nearly everything this dog does. However, at the same time there is a certain amount of elegance to the whole thing, though perhaps that stems more from the slow motion and less from the dog.

Materials
Water, pan, air can.

Observations
This shot differs from the other air can shots in that with this shot the canister was held above the pan and directed straight down. This, they advise, is inadvisable as you end up spraying out something incredibly cold, Adrian noted in the comments that it wasn’t LOx as I had originally assumed (and after further reading have verified could not be formed that way) instead of just compressed air. This makes for a nice fog and frozen appendages if improperly aimed. In this case we end up with a nice rolling cloud and some very splashy water. I like the occasional spots in the clip where the fog goes away and you are left with nothing but turbulent water. Since one almost never sees wind striking the water from that particular angle it makes for some nearly creepy water. I also like being able to see the flow of the vapor.

Materials
Paintball gun (Provided by Advanced Tronics in Waycross, GA)
Paintballs

Observations
This was a rapid fire paint ball gun that would belt out the paint balls at a pretty decent clip. The force these things hit with was rather amazing, it was actually taking the paint off of the wall. One of the things I like about this particular shot is the way each ball pushes the remaining paint around. This is a good one to still frame through, there are several really interesting hits.

Materials
Water, pan, air can.

Observations
This is a fun shot. I like the way the splash forms from the blast of air. I kind of wish I had filmed this from the front. There really isn’t much more that I can say about this piece. The splash is pretty, the drops are pretty, enjoy?

Additional Notes
This note is almost unrelated to this post. Today I shipped back the SVSi GigaView camera and a sad farewell it was. This was a really fun camera to use and I will miss having it around. It was quick to setup and nice to film with, very little fuss. The customer service was excellent, the people were fun to talk to and very knowledgeable. It was a great camera to work with and I look forward to seeing more from this company, I think they have a bright future in the high-speed industry.