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Filename: drum1003.jpg
Settings: f-stop 11, ISO400 digital picture
This is the second picture we took during our first photo shoot. We were impressed with how sharp the hole punch bits were on the picture. We used yellow, red, and green flashes, in that order, to illuminate the dots. The yellow flash didn’t show up very well, and we later changed it to blue. The drum was hit in the middle; the image of the drumstick lit by the red flash is quite clear.
Filename: drum1008.jpg
Settings: f-stop 11, ISO400 digital picture
This picture was hit on the right side (red and green drumstick images are visible). It shows the wedge shape we expected to see when the drum was hit off-center. The order of the flashes was blue, red, green.
Filename: drum2005.jpg
Settings: f-stop 8.7, ISO400 digital picture
In our second photo shoot, we tried to be more scientific and actually track the progress of the individual hole punches. We marked X’s on one side and O’s on the other, and put the dots in a line across the center of the drum, with the X side up. The pictures we got using these methods were rather uninteresting, and we went back to using many hole punches in the next photo shoot.
Filename: drum3001.jpg (left) drum3003.jpg (right)
Settings: f-stop 8.7, ISO400 digital picture
In our third photo shoot, we tried to work on making our pictures lighter. To do this we put a reflective white piece of board behind the drum to reflect the flashes. In these pictures we are simply hitting the drum without paper hole punches. Working with the drumstick alone first let us see if we need to alter our timing delay. In the left picture we are using green, blue and no filter. In the right we decided to add a flash and change the delay. We are using green, green, blue, and no filter in the right picture. We were originally trying to create the impression of sky, clouds and grass.
Filename: drum3005.jpg
Settings: f-stop 8.7, ISO400 digital picture
This is one of our first pictures with hole punches during our third photo shoot. We wanted to create a picture with them - this one was Earth. We decided to keep using many hole punches because they made the picture more interesting and prettier but we decided after a few pictures with this flash combination that we would change and use louder colors. This flash combination is green (grass), green (grass), blue (sky), and no filter (clouds).
Filename: drum4008.jpg
Settings: f-stop 8.7, ISO400 digital picture
This is from the first photo shoot during which we used eight flashes. We arranged the hole punches in five piles and hit the drum in the center for this picture. The flash colors – blue, light blue, yellow, dark yellow, orange, dark orange, red and dark red – were meant to make the hole punches look like a flame.
Filename: drums5009.jpg
Settings: F-stop 8.7, ISO400 digital picture.
We used eight flashes to take this picture. The pile on the far left was accidentally placed on a vibrational node, and did not jump like the three in the middle. The pile on the far right was probably also on or near a node. In contrast to the previous picture, the rainbow flash colors combined to produce an overall white cast to the picture, rather than reddish.
Filename: drum5014.jpg
Settings: F-stop 8.7, ISO400 digital picture
In this picture, we used glitter (as we had originally intended) instead of hole punches on the drum head. The glitter we used was red, and therefore didn’t show flash colors like the hole punches did, but produced a rather pretty effect anyway. The flashes were rainbow colors, as in the previous picture.