Photographing the Sun

With the very rare 2024 total solar eclipse coming up, I have gotten interested in solar photography. This article describes my DYI "Sun finder". There are plenty of "sun finder" products on the market, but everybody was out of stock, presumably because of the upcoming eclipse. The article also provides some general information about solar photography. You can click on any image in this article to see it in higher resolution.

Banging things with a bicycle pump

I have been messing around with a trigger that pumps air into a bicycle pump, which bangs under a surface loaded with objects, making them jump. The trigger fires the camera with precise timing, so you can for example shoot some shiny things flying: