Video of Shooting More Small Spinning Glow Sticks at Night
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I took a couple pictures pre-destruction. Here is a cool one looking directly into the glass so you can see the reflection of the glow sticks:
Here is the basic assembly using hot glue at the top and bottom to try to hold them in place. If you watched the video, you know it didn't even hold past the first shot.
I held it up with a string with two slip knots in it. Simple stuff.
Hopefully @Hateful McNasty will appreciate the addition of the cup to this session.
Happy Shooting!!
Here is the basic assembly using hot glue at the top and bottom to try to hold them in place. If you watched the video, you know it didn't even hold past the first shot.
I held it up with a string with two slip knots in it. Simple stuff.
Hopefully @Hateful McNasty will appreciate the addition of the cup to this session.
Happy Shooting!!
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I was thinking you had 2 cups. One in the middle to hold the glowsticks against the outer one
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Interesting idea, though all I saw at first was just blackness.
Glow-in-the-dark things can be really bright after being exposed to an intense white LED flashlight. You could hang up some of those. Last Halloween I bought a bag of large GITD plastic spiders. Could hang one inside a steel can for a doubly reactive target.
Glow-in-the-dark things can be really bright after being exposed to an intense white LED flashlight. You could hang up some of those. Last Halloween I bought a bag of large GITD plastic spiders. Could hang one inside a steel can for a doubly reactive target.
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I learned when I did the first video that they were practically invisible before you start. That time, I got lucky and nailed one on my first shot, so that "lit the way" for the rest of the shots. I knew that the windage was dialed in better/easier on my Avenger, so that was why I used it. I used a super-bright LED spot light to illuminate the target and get myself on, and using an Accu-Tac bipod and an Armageddon Gear bag meant that once I got it set up, that it should be true. Once I was filming, I just touched the trigger, and thank goodness that I hit it, because then I was able to get the camera on target too.
That was a fun idea to attach a GITD spider to a can. How did you attach them? I have quite a few glow sticks that I was thinking about attaching to cans to film and seeing how many shots it takes me to get lucky and pop the glow stick. I'm sure that hot glue won't work, so I'm going to have to do some engineering to come up with a solution to keep the glow stick attached to the can after multiple shots, so it would be good to know what you came up with. Thanks for the feedback!
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Thanks for all the details about what you did.
I got the GITD spiders BAG (before air guns) and have not done any night shooting. Yet.
Some details for you:
The spider legs span 2.75” at the widest part, so you would need a steel can of at least 3” diameter to make a suspended spinner in it. A quart size paint can or the large old-fashioned nectar cans should work well if you remove the lid or run a can opener around it, respectively. The can would be hung or mounted on its side, with the circular open end and the hanging spider facing you.
The spider itself could be hung with a cord loop around its body. Then drill a hole in the can wall and pull the open end of the cord through that, through a small flat washer, and then knot it on top.
The nice thing is that the other circular end of the can could be lined with something, to make it a pellet trap. When I make nested soup cans to shoot, I put both of the poptop lids inside also. That makes 4 steel layers. So far, nothing has made it through the back.
The bag of spiders contained 10 of them, and I am using only 2 (to mark where a floor lamp and a post are inside so a nightlight isn’t needed). If you want, I’ll give you a couple spiders. Same for iAMzehTOASTY1.
I got the GITD spiders BAG (before air guns) and have not done any night shooting. Yet.
Some details for you:
The spider legs span 2.75” at the widest part, so you would need a steel can of at least 3” diameter to make a suspended spinner in it. A quart size paint can or the large old-fashioned nectar cans should work well if you remove the lid or run a can opener around it, respectively. The can would be hung or mounted on its side, with the circular open end and the hanging spider facing you.
The spider itself could be hung with a cord loop around its body. Then drill a hole in the can wall and pull the open end of the cord through that, through a small flat washer, and then knot it on top.
The nice thing is that the other circular end of the can could be lined with something, to make it a pellet trap. When I make nested soup cans to shoot, I put both of the poptop lids inside also. That makes 4 steel layers. So far, nothing has made it through the back.
The bag of spiders contained 10 of them, and I am using only 2 (to mark where a floor lamp and a post are inside so a nightlight isn’t needed). If you want, I’ll give you a couple spiders. Same for iAMzehTOASTY1.
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