« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: How to photograph fire and smoke  (Read 737 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Blaster

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 637
  • Gender: Male
How to photograph fire and smoke
« on: February 04, 2009, 02:20:21 PM »
Back in December, GGaskill was nice enough to give me some easy to understand instructions on taking a picture of a cannon/mortar with fire and smoke coming out of the tube as it is fired.  Just today it was warm enough here (about 70 degrees) for me to give it a try.  It worked out just as GGaskill suggested but I now know that I have to set the camera at a faster speed to eliminate the blur of that very fast moving fire and smoke.  There is no mty BP powder can included in the picture but I believe I am safe from getting chewed out from old DD since he's apparently still off line but hopefully getting better from his medical "fix".  Please overlook the blur of the picture as I'm still learning.  This mortar has a bore of just a little short of beer/soda can size.  Note there is an white mty 35 m/m film canister on the ground just in front of the sled base to provide at least a little scale measurement.  I will do better next time but my hound dog is NOT looking forward to another shot from this little noise maker.  The projectile was a 2-inch ID piece of electrical conduit filled with concrete over 120 grains of FG.  Went just a little over 100 yards.  Thanks for looking.
Blaster (Bob in So. CO)

Slap hammer is on the way down and is about one inch from the musket cap.



Here it's in full force headed down range



And finally here's the next frame after the fire and smoke has somewhat subsided



This little action provided a great day for Blaster (me)... :)
Logged
Graduate of West Point (West Point, Iowa that is)

Offline Artilleryman

  • Moderator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1378
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2009, 03:49:18 PM »
Nice series of photos.
Logged
Norm Gibson, 1st SC Vol., ACWSA

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2009, 05:17:17 PM »
Hello Blaster ! You had 70 degree weather in So. Co. today ....?


Thats a nice mortar you've got there Blaster . I like that last pic where the flame almost done .

It reminds me of those Israeli 155mm Howie's when they open the breech and some more flaming "vapor" goes out through muzzle brake .

Up here in the northern waste lands of Co. 70 degrees ....no way .

It did however top 68.54 Degrees which was very lucky BECAUSE Mike and Tracy and Me were shooting my 2.25" South Bend cohorn THIS VERY DAY TOO I think they are twin mortars !

Pool Balls were the choice ammo today . It's nice to know "The Sun Never Sets on the Cohorn Empire."

I guess on second thought we are in the same time zone...  well then ,Mountain Time is setting the pace !!!

Any of yous guys in Kentucky, New York , Minnesota , South Dakota ,Montana , Ohio , Vermont , West Virgina do any shooting of late  Huhummmmnna ?  ;D

I got a sunburn on my head today ,then there was the wind .....yikes ,it was whipping up near 6 mph so we had to put up with that too :'( .

All in all it was one for the books ;D .......I'm not sure I'll make another 6 weeks of winter! ....Well maybe :D

Sorry I had to gloat abit as tommorow could bring a 60 degree change and blizzards that are killer wicked in the very spot we were today .

Bob ,I should have waved as Pikes Peak was proly visable today  8)

rocklockI          getting by one day at a time

 



Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline Rickk

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1391
    • http://www.lioby.com
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2009, 07:24:24 AM »
Massachusetts for me.

It was 7F this morning, and there is 2 feet of snow on the lawn.

Because I was bored and wanted to do something outside, I walked out back to my cannon range with an axe last Sunday to cut down a bit of next year's firewood and add some more "range" to my cannon range.

Every step was work. There is a couple inch layer of ice in the snow. Every step broke thru the ice. the walk out back took more out of me than swinging the axe did.

Come April it will all turn to mud. Shooting season will start around June for me.
Logged

Offline BoomLover

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1152
  • Gender: Male
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2009, 02:05:35 PM »
Still a bit wet, but not too cold here on the Southern Oregon Coast...soon as we get a semi-sunny day with nothing else planned, when we can keep our powder dry, out come the Mortars for a few rounds! Just saw that Double D was on line, welcome back! So, straighten up everybody, we are being watched again! Just funnin' wit ya! BoomLover
Logged
"Beware the Enemy With-in, for these are perilous times! Those who promise to protect and defend our Constitution, but do neither, should be evicted from public office in disgrace!

Offline Blaster

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 637
  • Gender: Male
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2009, 02:16:15 PM »
Quote from: BoomLover on February 05, 2009, 02:05:35 PM
Just saw that Double D was on line, welcome back! So, straighten up everybody, we are being watched again! Just funnin' wit ya! BoomLover

Yeah, and I'm just sitting here waiting for old DD to chastise me for my lack of an mty powder can in my pictures above.    ;D
Logged
Graduate of West Point (West Point, Iowa that is)

Offline GGaskill

  • Moderator
  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5669
  • Gender: Male
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2009, 03:00:20 PM »
A friend of mine used to use a mixture of black and waste smokeless powder in his mortars and after each shot had departed, there was this lazy flame that lingered at the muzzle for several seconds while the remnants of the smokeless finished burning.
Logged
GG
“If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.”--Winston Churchill

Offline Double D

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12618
  • SAMCC cannon by Brooks-USA
    • South African Miniature Cannon Club
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2009, 03:38:15 PM »
How soon we forget, the powder can rule is the blaster rule... :) you created, not me, I just agreed with it because it made so much sense. I also always listen to my elders.
Logged

Offline Blaster

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 637
  • Gender: Male
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2009, 02:22:20 PM »
Quote from: Double D on February 05, 2009, 03:38:15 PM
How soon we forget, the powder can rule is the blaster rule... :) you created, not me, I just agreed with it because it made som much senses. I also always listen to may elders.

Hey, I'm only about eight years away from 80 years of age.  Here I thought I was the junior. Ya had me fooled......;D ;D
Logged
Graduate of West Point (West Point, Iowa that is)

Offline Double D

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12618
  • SAMCC cannon by Brooks-USA
    • South African Miniature Cannon Club
Re: How to photograph fire and smoke
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2009, 03:15:58 PM »
Bob,

I aspire to be as old as you in ten years, but in ten years I will still aspire to be as old as you. One must have goals.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »