Exploding Eggs

What happens when an egg gets impacted by a .22 bullet?
It kind of explodes!
Enjoy!

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You like blowing things up, ya?

nice shots, can't see the exif data - curious what the shutter speed was?

Pretty cool! I like 3 and 4.

Thanks!
Probably somewhere around 6 seconds for most of them; these were shot in the dark, using a 580 EXII on 1/128 power (mechanical shutters would be too slow); we used a sound trigger to hear the gun, and by the time the flash triggered, the bullet was there. The darkness enabled us to use BULB; nothing exposes until the flash fires.

ha ha, those are wicked...

Nice. Interested in the timing aspects. Did you fine tune the timing using the microphone to source distance or other methods?

Nice captures-

No yolking around with those pics. Nice.

Eggcelent!!

Nice work

LITTLEL wrote in post #15003350
ha ha, those are wicked...

J Michael wrote in post #15008020
Nice. Interested in the timing aspects. Did you fine tune the timing using the microphone to source distance or other methods?

Snapshot101 wrote in post #15030520
Nice captures-

Norman B wrote in post #15031070
No yolking around with those pics. Nice.

bucket772 wrote in post #15034537
Eggcelent!!

Nice work

Thanks everyone!
J Michael: dad built a device that will trigger using a microphone, so once we set it up, all we had to do was work on our timing; the bullet wasn't making it to the target before the flash triggered.first, we tried toning the sensitivity down, but that didn't make that much of a difference. We had a trash bag on the table so the egg wouldn't ruin anything, so we placed the microphone under it, to try to muffle the sound a bit. We eventually put the microphone in a glove under the bag, with the pedestal to hold the egg on top of that.