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Here's a few shots which combine my love of photography with archery.

The flash is mechanically triggered essentially by shorting the flash's base contacts via a long bit of wire and two alfoil sheets. The arrow either shorts them, or knocks them together.

I'm not the archer, but look out for this guy when the Commonwealth Games finally let compound shooters in next event.

The arrows are moving at around 320 feet per second or 351 kph.
Flash is a SB28 at 1/64 output.

We had a few double flashes that were caused by sporadic switch contacts but sorted that problem using paper between things.

Next idea is to rig up multiple switches so that I actually use the multiple flashes for a single multiflash exposure sequence.

great shots and setup you came up with.

Because he's in black, bow is black and part of the arrow is black, some of the detail gets lost in the background. Otherwise, well done,

cheers,


André

Thanks!
A white background has sometimes been problematical when I've been doing other stroboscopic experimenting. I've also just realised that I don't have any white sheets big enough to stop people seeing how untidy my garage is.

My model just happened to be wearing black, He's a sponsored shooter and he got what bow the company gave him, and carbon arrows are pretty much always entirely black.

Bit of a bugger of coincidences really.

I've got some more stuff planned, so I'll think some more about what I can do to enhance the detail.