Lighter than air revolver

[PALADIN85020]

I took this shot as a gag - Smith & Wesson advertises its "Airweight" revolvers that are indeed very lightweight using space age metals. I thought I'd go them one better with a revolver that's actually lighter than air. Here's the picture:



I posted this on April 1 on the Smith & Wesson forum, and some actually bought the concept!

In actuality, I suspended the little revolver by threads from overhead hooks, and then photoshopped the threads out of the picture. Some suspected I tossed the gun in the air and then used high speed photography, but this was a lot simpler with no chance of damage to the gun. I used a Pentax K200D with a Pentax 18-55 lens set to 35mm, ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/250 sec, manual exposure. I wanted limited depth of field to accentuate and isolate the subject.

John

[zona5101]

nice work.
you should resize the pic to follow forum guidelines...as it is now advertising ribbons cut into the image and your text.

[PALADIN85020]

Originally Posted by zona5101

nice work.
you should resize the pic to follow forum guidelines...as it is now advertising ribbons cut into the image and your text.

Sorry about that - re-posted with a smaller picture - I hope that works.

John

[zona5101]

Originally Posted by PALADIN85020

Sorry about that - re-posted with a smaller picture - I hope that works.

John

yup! and it still looks awesome

[studysession]

Pretty cool -
I like that you actually suspended it and not just photo shop it into a picture.

[Hill Country Hack]

Cool shot. Thanks for the explaination.

[JudiRose]

Very creative of you!

[Grace E Armstrong]

Very neat. You can see a bit of sting I think at the end of the gun that you may have missed but it's probably a trick of light. Very believeable!

[PGRoss]

Love the concept and the subject comes out very well! It does deliver your message.

The background on the other hand is not appealing. I'd be hard pressed to provide a better idea, but the backyard look doesn't work for me. Maybe a shooting range? A silhouette target in an out of focus dark background? That would also make you work a bit on lighting. I think it's well lit for this scene, but a more staged shot, perhaps in a studio, would have demanded more directional lighting techniques to take it to "the next level".

(comments from a very raw newbie, just judging with my eye not in depth knowledge)