For those of you who make a habit of hitting up high speed video galleries you have no doubt seen more than your fair share of water balloons being put through all manner of torture. We’re different! Well we were anyway. Without further adieu I bring you…….(drumroll please) The Death of a Water Balloon, part one….of six. In all seriousness I’ve always loved the high speed water balloon shots and while they have been a bit overdone they are always fascinating for one reason or another. In this instance I took balloons from a helium balloon kit, instead of normal water balloons, and filled it overfull with water and then unceremoniously dropped it from about 3ft. This particular shot has had some post processing to bring the brightness down and the contrast up a bit so you can more readily see the shape of the balloon and resultant splash. The camera was placed almost level with the ground, and using the 60mm lens lets the water appear very close without endangering the camera. I like the contortions the balloon goes through right before it breaks. If you use the arrow keys and step through the part where it actually breaks you get a chance to see some really interesting things happening around where the balloon is splitting.
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