Little shoot at Stilly's - Nov 15th
A few of us WA guys on PyroU threw around the idea of a casual little get-together a few weeks ago and were able to make something happen on Saturday.
We had maybe five PyroU guys plus a few friends, so it was a nice little crowd, though far from a full group shoot. I arrived with my brother and a couple friends around 5pm as it was almost dark and started looking through the store for a few things. I had brought about half my stash, but wanted to try a few things they carried and suppor them since they give us a nice place to shoot.
Frank was there, friendly and helpful as usual. I bought two Big Fireworks 500g cakes, Wide Angle and Airstrike, two Great Grizzly cakes marked as "360 gram", What's Up Dog and Vendetta, and Texas Gunslinger (Red Rhino) and Twinkling Web (Forward). While still in the store I missed a bunch of shells, they didn't wait for us! I hurriedly finished up inside and got over to the field in time to see some Critical Acclaim mines.
Frank was there, friendly and helpful as usual. I bought two Big Fireworks 500g cakes, Wide Angle and Airstrike, two Great Grizzly cakes marked as "360 gram", What's Up Dog and Vendetta, and Texas Gunslinger (Red Rhino) and Twinkling Web (Forward). While still in the store I missed a bunch of shells, they didn't wait for us! I hurriedly finished up inside and got over to the field in time to see some Critical Acclaim mines.
PyroU member cdbtx/Chuck was testing out the efire system he was building, and had it connected mostly to Wolverine products. I didn't get any video of it because I've seen those items plenty of times, but he fired a few groups of cakes that looked pretty nice, as well as three cremoras I wasn't quick enough with my camera to catch.
Chris/seuss1973 had a few cakes to test out as well, some of which were pretty good (Evil Eyes) and some were a little lame (something with Terror in the name). A bit unexpectedly I had the largest pile of stuff to shoot that night, so I had plenty of fun lighting some of my items and having my brother and friend light a few.
[Videos of most cakes shot are in my PyroU gallery, I assume just about everyone reading this is registered there, so I'll only embed a couple highlights for the lazy.]
I was very happy with most of what I shot. Bada Bing was kind of weak but I had low expectations for that one anyway. After seeing a video that looked good, I was rather disappointed by What's Up Dog, but really liked Vendetta (both GG). Seeing a properly functioning Dahlias & Bouquets was nice, it appears the one I shot at the reception was fused wrong as well as not fiing the last row, the mines do all fire before the first shell volley. The effects on Heavy Metal are a little different from the last time I shot it, but it still looks great. I really liked both Airstrike (nice effects and spread) and Wide Angle (still frame above). Here are a couple videos, everything can be found in my gallery.
[Videos of most cakes shot are in my PyroU gallery, I assume just about everyone reading this is registered there, so I'll only embed a couple highlights for the lazy.]
I was very happy with most of what I shot. Bada Bing was kind of weak but I had low expectations for that one anyway. After seeing a video that looked good, I was rather disappointed by What's Up Dog, but really liked Vendetta (both GG). Seeing a properly functioning Dahlias & Bouquets was nice, it appears the one I shot at the reception was fused wrong as well as not fiing the last row, the mines do all fire before the first shell volley. The effects on Heavy Metal are a little different from the last time I shot it, but it still looks great. I really liked both Airstrike (nice effects and spread) and Wide Angle (still frame above). Here are a couple videos, everything can be found in my gallery.
