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
My rather large orange tabby.

Observations
I like this shot for a number of reasons, almost none of which have anything to do with slow motion. Most of what appeals to me about this particular shot comes from the framing and lighting situation. This was pure chance of course. Skwirt was hungry and decided to bug me as I was working and I had the presence of mind to try and get a shot of him jumping, he’s a really large cat and I figured it would be hilarious to watch him jiggle. Sadly I wasn’t able to capture that but I was able to get him to look at the camera for a brief moment. At any rate, enjoy.

Additional notes
A brief note on the title. Skwirt is a jerk about sandwiches. Whenever one of us happens to be making a sandwich he has to get right up in it and do his best to eat the sandwich before you have had the time to properly make the sandwich. I think this stems from the fact that the cat is a total glutton. At last weighing (about 6mo ago) he was 18lbs, he’s put on some weight since then. The look he is giving the camera in this shot is inarguably his “feed me or I’ll eat your face” look, hence the title.

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.

Observations
This shot is interesting in that we get an opportunity to study something we see fairly regularly, hair, in slow motion. The momentary loss of weight in her hair as she reaches the apex of her run provides for some very interesting movement. I would love to see NASA tackle some slow motion long hair shots next time they are filming, but my guess is they have better things to film like more water drops. At any rate I think it is interesting to watch how the hair responds to the rising and falling motions of her running.

Materials
My wife….sorry, you’ll have to use your own. I suppose a girlfriend or a female friend/model might work as well.
A wheat field.

Observations
This one is great for a number of reasons, some of which for me are purely personal, though many are independent of the person. I’ll focus on the ones that don’t involve me gushing about my wife. This shot involves all kinds of dynamic goodness. The movement of the dress and hair are both fascinating to watch. You can also observe how the dress interacts with the legs as she runs. It is also incredibly interesting to study the movement of the muscles and skin as she runs. My wife doesn’t jiggle visibly when she walks, at least not to the naked eye, so it is fascinating to see how much the average body actually moves when we are in motion. I plan to do a series of bodies in motion against a gridded background so we can more closely study how much flex and give there is in the human body.

Observations
I like this video because we actually get to see the proboscis rolling up on itself as the moth/butterfly takes flight. It is also interesting to watch how the moth achieves vertical flight with those wings. Those are my favorite parts, the rest I leave to you.