# Balloon Pop!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/balloon-pop/252979>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [February 26, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/balloon-pop/252979 "2008-02-26T03:25:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![3d\_Nirvana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/a88e4f/32.png) [@3d\_Nirvana](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3d_Nirvana)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/balloon-pop/252979/1 "2008-02-26T03:25:04Z")

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New photo guys! this was my project for the day. I used a black poster board taped to the fence for my backdrop, and a white board over the top of my garbage can for the “floor”. To light it i used two small strobes on the left (triggered optically by the on camera flash). One was a little above the balloon for the directional light and one was a little behind it to add some edge highlights. It took about 30 tries to get this, but i think it turned out great! I had my dad poke it with a piano wire to pop it, it was really hard to get “synchronized” haha

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/4342/28551523af90d3ec.jpg)  
F/8 aperture, 1/250 second shutter

thanks for looking!  
3dnirvana