So I was bored out of my mind one stupid afternoon. Effin bored. So I took out my camera, attached my 580 EX II and took some random shots in my room.

I was just playing with light, bouncing the flash from the ceiling, the walls and my makeshift reflector.

I saw my Nalgene water bottle. Some of you may recognize it. It’s the orange water bottle I bring with me during trips.

I had a faint idea of diffusing the flash through it. Making it some kind of gel. Orange gel. Haha.

I put the flash on its usual TTL mode and I found the shots dark. It was probably underexposing because the bottle was too dark and it had some water in it.

So I stupidly set it on manual and put it to full power. Put the bottle almost touching the flash head. Focused on my Nikon (e-fan). And hit the shutter.

Puta.

Smoke.

Smelled of something burnt.

I almost panicked thinking I fucked up my flash while just playing with it.

And then I found out where the smoke came from.

It came from the freakin water bottle. The Nalgene print on the bottle burned.

See the letter “a” in Nalgene. The flash fried it. Now that’s full power!

But I will not do that again.
Maybe I just got lucky.
Flash works perfectly.

I’m sorry camera gods.