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Originally Posted by JerInTheBox

This is an excellent tutorial, I hope it makes the front page because it's got lots of useful info, especially the links for the light and sound triggers. Can you explain why you wouldn't want to use black balloons? I watched a video on Chase Jarvis's site of him using this technique and they used black balloons with pretty nice results.

Thanks!

Black balloons are actually okay, depending on what you are going for. The black balloons tend to blend with the background, which can be good or bad. If you don't want to see the balloon, black is the way to go.

On the picture where I popped the water-covered balloon, the balloon would probably have still been visible which might have made for a more interesting shot. In fact, I only use colored balloons in my balloon shots now, just to add a little color

Btw, eggs are fun to shoot too