Holding An Exploded Water Balloon [Photography]

Edward Horsford has taken a sequence of high-speed pictures that captures a water balloon…without the balloon. The shots are snapped at the point of explosion, when the balloon skin breaks open. It appears like he’s somehow holding a ball of water.

He actually takes the photographs solo, without help. When Edward talked to the NPR, he said that the camera was actually the least important element of the shots. What mattered most was the timing of the flash. The camera was set to take an extended exposure of ~2 seconds and if the flash fired during that time, he would get this kind of awesome images (the flash was sound-triggered).

Other than that, it’s old skool popping the water balloon. Looks pretty sweet. [ NPR via Neatorama ]

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