Matthew Jeppsen

Matthew Jeppsen is a freelance videographer and photographer with a strong interest in the growing convergence of digital stills and moving images. He also writes at ProVideoCoalition.


Sunday, November 07, 2010

Build a DIY highspeed photography trigger

Freeze slices of time, DIY style

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If you’ve ever wanted to try shooting high-speed photography like balloons popping, drops of water, glasses shattering, you’ll probably appreciate the following tutorial from Matt Richardson. In the video embedded below, he shows you how to build a simple audio sensor for your DSLR using an Arduino controller that allows you to trigger the camera fast enough to freeze incredibly fast action. Not only that, he takes it a step further to automatically cut his room lighting once the controller is armed (ok Matt, now you are just showing off). It’s a really cool tutorial, watch below…

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