Were you shooting it from the right?
Yes this is a small aluminium capsule with a 50 /50 mix of alcohol and lamp oil, that had been burning for a little while to " get cooking "
My friend sitting behind me 10 M or so away over my right shoulder then shot the capsule with his .22 FX Cutlass, while i was manning his canon Dslr camera set to custom / manual exposure settings and then burst mode.
The original shot have about 5 pictures to it, but this one is the only one in the string that evoke some resemblance to something.
The capsule was put on that pedestal of stones you can see in the picture.
I suppose something like this ( it is just a few CC of burning liquid could be fun to shoot with thermal too )
with thermal i assume you could use gasoline, i dident want to do that in my case in case of black smoke, but in thermal i dont think that would be a issue.
I have been compiling various ALU containers for a while, like deodorant sprays ASO, so we are able to make such a shot again this year if we get the time to do it, and of course the summer, CUZ summer 2023 in Denmark was really strange, and ended in the end of June where the summer months here are normally June / July and August.
Okay the bottom of a ALU container formerly holding deodorant are a lot bigger than the capsule we used back then, but i think we can still get a effect of some kind, ALU capsules on bottles are now long gone it is god damn plastic all of it.
I am also looking for a 90 deg bend steel pipe with a couple of foot radius, so i / we could shoot a pellet in one end, have it turn 90 degrees upward and hit something put on the other end of the pipe with burning liquid in it, to get a more "volcano " like eruption.
In the phoenix picture above, what give the tail feathers like effect in the liquid is the aluminium capsule collapsing in on it self as it is hit.
Next time i will try some takes with peppels put into the burning liquid to see if that do anything, also this time we have a safety barrier to take the photographs from behind, and i also have a video camera now capable of 250 FPS recording.
Also our old session was shot with regular diabolo pellets ( 18 gr JSB heavy ) , i am thinking trying various kinds of hollow point pellets and slugs, but even other kind of ammo too.
I used to be really into Metallica "back in the day", and they used to call Lars Ulrich a "Cheesy Danish" all the time, and I thought it was hilarious! Too Funny!
