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It makes me very happy that I am enabling Mr L's interest in photography by appealing to the geek in him. Playing together is way more fun than playing on my own.

Last night's project involved building a sound trigger with an Arduino. The trigger fired the flash. We played with party poppers. In a darkened room, with one off-camera flash and a reflector and firing the camera shutter remotely first on a 2 second exposure.

The images are less than perfect and we have much to learn about the use of flash but as a first attempt - we are happy.

Party Poppers Session 1
Party Poppers Session 1
Party Poppers Session 1
Party Poppers Session 1
Party Poppers Session 1

Next, we plan to do party poppers again but to fire the flash from the camera and use the Triggertrap to trigger the shutter when the popper goes off.  We hope to deploy two off-camera flashes by using the EX90 Speedlite on my 6D as the flash master.

We may be way out of our depth here! Learn a little every day, right?