Bottle rockets!

pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
edited July 28, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
Also from the amateur astronomer's get together in eastern Finland.

I shot the first with a 30mm then swiched to my 10-20mm wide and stepped in close enough to get sprayed, every time :D

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What you do is take a 1-2 liter soda bottle, tape some fins on it, make a nozzle and release system (we use a fairly standard garden hose quick release connector that's big enough at one end to have the bottle top glued in it), put some water in, pump it up to pressure and let it fly. :D
Creativity's hard.

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  • Darren Troy CDarren Troy C Registered Users Posts: 1,927 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2008
    #'s 1 & 2 are pretty cool! Clever!
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2008
    Wow eek7.gif amazing stuff ! must be a great fun !
    Loved the 2nd a a lot
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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2008
    Agreed! That second shot is super cool! Great timing, focus and everything! thumb.gifclap.gif
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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2008
    That looks like a lot of fun :D

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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2008
    Idlewild wrote:
    #'s 1 & 2 are pretty cool! Clever!

    Thanks!
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Wow eek7.gif amazing stuff ! must be a great fun !
    Loved the 2nd a a lot

    Thank you :D

    It is a lot of fun! We had a bunch of kids build the rockets and then launch them over the lake. A canoe team played fetch.
    eL eSs Vee wrote:
    Agreed! That second shot is super cool! Great timing, focus and everything! thumb.gifclap.gif

    This is what I actually did:

    Timing, start blasting at 5 fps on the one count.
    Focus, guess at 1 meter and plenty of depth.
    Everything else: luck! lol3.gif

    Just about the only thing I knew I was doing right was placing meself a meter away from the launcher. I wasn't even looking in the viewfinder, I held the camera down low and took a test shot to see if I was pointing it anywhere useful (this technique works magic with ultra wides).

    Glad you liked the pictures!
    Thanks a lot for the positive feedback! :D
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2008
    Dogdots wrote:
    That looks like a lot of fun :D

    Liked them all thumb.gif

    Surprisingly dry too a meter away from a bottle turned upside down with water and 8 bar of pressure in it! lol3.gif

    Thanks Mary :D
    Creativity's hard.

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 28, 2008
    pyry wrote:
    Also from the amateur astronomer's get together in eastern Finland.

    I shot the first with a 30mm then swiched to my 10-20mm wide and stepped in close enough to get sprayed, every time :D

    What you do is take a 1-2 liter soda bottle, tape some fins on it, make a nozzle and release system (we use a fairly standard garden hose quick release connector that's big enough at one end to have the bottle top glued in it), put some water in, pump it up to pressure and let it fly. :D

    This looks like a heap of fun Pyry. thumb.gif
    I love the last shot, hope you didn't get water inside your gear shooting these.... Skippy :D
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited July 28, 2008
    Skippy wrote:
    This looks like a heap of fun Pyry. thumb.gif
    I love the last shot, hope you didn't get water inside your gear shooting these.... Skippy :D
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    I wasn't that close lol3.gif
    I was actually surprised at how little spray I got from as close in as I was. I didn't even have to dry the filter more than once. The spray breaks into really small droplets.

    Thanks for the comment Skippy, I think the fourth is my favourite as well :D
    Creativity's hard.

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