Heart Breaker
The photo is taken by Jeroen Rouwkema.

Marbles
The photo is taken by fotoopa.

A Splash

Sound-triggered high-speed flash photography
These experiments were performed as part of the 2008 Astro-Science Workshop of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL.

The Red And The Blue
The photo is taken by Paul Hocksenar.

Cherry Drop
Photo by Brian Davies.

KevLewis

Ghirlanda Colore
The photo is taken by Antonino Dattola.

Water Sphere

Popping Balloons
The photo is taken by Rob Hilken.

Allesblinkt

kalimistuk

Apple Water Splash
Photo by linden.g.

Speedy burst water balloon
“Awesome and interesting shot of a water balloon being popped. I’ve never seen a planet blow up, but this is how I imagine it would look.”

Water Sound Figures
Photo by linden.g.

Inapond

Smashed (and burning) bulb
The photo is taken by Peter Wienerroither from the University of Wien, Austria.

Rising Up
Photo by James Neeley.


Strange Brew
Photo by Ray Edgar.

Shattered Glass
“This photo perfectly freezes the moment between the breaking of the bulb and the tungsten filaments (thereby breaking the source of light), it’s a sort of limbo captured.”

Unknown (?)

High Speed Milk Drop

Shower Cap


H0S

3 Waterbaloons

Milk and Coffee
The photo is taken by Andreas Stridsberg.

Bullet Pictures

Red Light Bulb
Photo by spyzter.

Pabst + Hollow Point

Water Dart
Photo by Adam Connah.

Nebarnix High-speed photography set


Flame

Ain’t No Reason

Minutes of fun
Photo by cavern.

How To Make High-Speed Photos?
The choice of shutter speed has a profound effect on the way moving subjects are recorded. For average everyday shooting with standard zooms, a speed over 1/20 to 1/125 second will prevent motion blur (camera shake). However, as the shutter speed goes past 1/500 second, you can then start to take advantage of the faster shutter speed’s ability to freeze action. For high-speed photography (especially sports photography), it is really necessary to get good motion blur-free shots. But making these speeds possible also requires either wide apertures, bright lighting conditions or an adjustment to the camera’s ISO speed — or a combination of all three.
Sometime the task of catching the most expressive instant, which can last for only hundredths of a second, becomes very difficult. In such cases, most photographers use the sequence mode, so that the camera fires several shots as it is panned. Cameras with a sequence mode let you fire a sequence and then throw out all of the non-sharp or useless images.
If you need to shoot a photo of a girl’s hair flying about or freeze the splash of a pouring drink, strobe is the way to do it. Most photographers use electronic flash as the lighting source in studios to freeze motion. Since electronic flash (strobe) stays lit between 1/800th and 1/2000th of a second, and because you will usually be shooting at f-stops above f-8, everything in the image will be razor sharp.
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