10/22 Trigger Module

[denton]

I used a trigger module out of a 10/22 as a subject to teach my budding grandkid photographers how to light small mechanical objects that are down in a hole. Thought it might be useful to some here if you decide to tear into your trigger, like I did. BTW, the Volquartzen hammer is cheap on eBay and as good as or maybe better than the BX trigger mod.

 

[sparkyv]

Nice. So what's the technique? More lighting?

 

[MEHavey]

over-expose and under-develop.
(showing my age....)

 

[denton]

The technique is called light painting. Put your camera on a tripod, use a remote shutter release, set the camera to Bulb, darken the room, and turn on the flashlight in your phone. Open the shutter and move the light source up, down, left, and right, all around.

A ring light around your lens is another way to do it. A third way is to take 3 exposures, one normal, one underexposed by about 2 stops, and one overexposed by about 2 stops. You can then combine the three in software for a very nice effect.

It's a great technique for shooting things like gun parts.

 

[denton]

over-expose and under-develop.
(showing my age....)

You and me both.

 

[roval]

The technique is called light painting. Put your camera on a tripod, use a remote shutter release, set the camera to Bulb, darken the room, and turn on the flashlight in your phone. Open the shutter and move the light source up, down, left, and right, all around.

A ring light around your lens is another way to do it. A third way is to take 3 exposures, one normal, one underexposed by about 2 stops, and one overexposed by about 2 stops. You can then combine the three in software for a very nice effect.

It's a great technique for shooting things like gun parts.

that's cool i only thought of that technique if you were shooting something big in the dark like a house or making multiple images of yourself in the same frame with a flashlight. i will try it. what color was the part sitting on?

 

[denton]

The trigger group was on an ordinary 8.5x11 sheet of card stock.

Hold the light so as to illuminate everything in the frame, and take a meter reading. That will be the correct exposure for the light painted version. The picture I posted was ISO 100, f11, 14.9 seconds.

 

[MEHavey]

...take a meter reading....

A meter....how retro... to the MAX.
( I'll you even remember how to spell... "incident" )

Gawd I'm feeling old....but still younger than Ansel Adams

 

[rabid wombat]

Will dodging and burning this conversation get me in trouble?