Thank you all for your kind comments and wishes. It is an illusion, I was not happy with the final product but I am relieved that most thought it worked convincingly.
The bullet is a pen cap suspended by thin fish line; the pulverized apple is flour that was loaded inside T-shaped tubing hidden inside the apple. I blew into the tubing and pressed my wireless shutter release simultaneously many times (each time reloading flour into the rig) and this is the best I could come up with. My intention was to have the powder trail the bullet, as it would happen in reality, it just never came out that way and I gave up after many attempts. In a real shot, it would be physically impossible for the powder to be ahead of the bullet, oh well.
The setup was lit with one monolight to each side (using soft boxes) and a low power snoot to the bullet.
Thank you all again!!!!!
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woah ok second bullet shot. did you actually shot an apple? this had to have taken AGES to do...WONDERFULLY composed and true luck that the bullet is right in the perfect shot to really add to the composition. great job!
Oh this would have been sooooo good if it were closer to the action. The grapes and flower seem unnecessary and out of place. I would have loved to see a more concentrated focus on just the bowl of apples.
Ohmy! You have to study this a minute to fully appreciate it. At first I thought it was just dust floating around the one vase, which was cool and high scoring on its own -- but then I noticed the bullet and the holes in the apple. Wow! And you didn't compromise any technicals in pulling this shot off. It's perfect. . .and the degree of difficulty has to be a 10. . .so 10 it is for a perfect score.
Very impressive! I've seen this kind of thing done before, but I'm sure if I attempted it I'd wind up with a dead cat or dead neighbor or something. I gave it a 10 just because it can't be an easy thing to pull off.
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