Blast off

This is why you don't let little boys play with big boys toys.

This is Vivek using our new Karcher high pressure cleaner. He tends to go just a little bit "ape" with it, so all my flashes were in Zip-Lock bags or shopping bags. The camera was vulnerable, but I was  dancing between him and the camera, darting out of the way just as I hit the trigger.

Now, this is nothing like what I wanted to get. But the model is not exactly the most obedient, losing track of instructions and spraying away willy-nilly... hence the bags on the flashes. The resulting image is two images stacked and masked. I was lucky to get him in any sort of useful pose at all. And because he is such an ageeable model, I had to have him standing on a table so that he would not fall off (I wanted to use a small ladder) in his enthusiasm and haphazard spraying :)

Anyway. The spray is an amazing thing. It's a Karcher 2.080, the cheapest they make at present. I got it to clean a few things, mostly the pebblecrete you see in the photo, which has a layer of slime and dust that turns to grease when wet. Now, I'm not one to give praise that readily (a fault of mine, as I am reminded often!), however this thing rocks. It is one of the few things that actually does what the box says it will do.

When used with the nozzle 2 inches from a surface, it will blast anything off it, and even blast loose paint, or dig into rubber. Beyond about 4 inches, it just stings a little, and beyond 1 foot it just blows a mist, very fast.

Today I wanted to create a comical image of Vivek being flung about by this jet of water. Alas this is the best we could do in fading light.

YN460IIs used. at 8:00 in white plastic bag at 1/2 power, in the rain, at 1:00 in ziploc bag at 1/16 power. 3:00 in ziplock bag at 1/2 power, 6:00 high in STU at /14 power. Camera triggered by YN RF602. flashes triggered by Phottix Stratos. Canon 60D 24-105 f/4L at 24mm f/5.6, iso 400, 1/100s.