I finally had a few minutes today to go through some of the thousands of photos I’ve taken this past year. This is an outtake from a model rocket launch I did with my kids in September 2009. It’s a movie generated from 90 frames shot with my Nikon D700 and the Nikkor 14-24mm.

Story line: Rocket setup, Quality Inspection, Launch, Recovery, Transport Back To Base and A Happy Dance.

Technical Ramblings: Nikon D700 on a tripod and triggered remotely on high speed shutter (5fps). I get about 19 RAW frames before the buffer is full and the frame rate slows to a crawl. I set the shutter and aperture manually to maintain a 1/8000 sec shutter. Doing this high speed shutter helped freeze the rocket in launch.

Uploaded by mark.mortensen on 26 Dec 09, 12.04AM MST.

Stills of the launch.