Bullet + Matches

Thanks for looking. Larger = better.

cool, nice capture ~ GT

What I like in this, compared to your other excellent shots, is how we can see the bullet very clearly, in a cloud of smaller fragments.

Interesting, very cool, but the quality isnt so good :/

Original!

Good photo!

Absolutely mind-boggling. I can't imagine the eqiuipment and work it must have taken to get this shot. Spectacular.

Amazing!

Biliana

Interesting result. Pnina

This one seems like a composite to me. The flame is "unflinchingly" straight up and the "particules" look like unburned gun powder to me, so that the end of the barrel of the gun was right on top of the match when fired, yet we do not see it.

Bella composicion,, luz, encuadre y tecnica,, saludos,,,6/6

http://www.hectorbrandan.com/images/julio-carmona.gif

tHiS iS a vEry inTereSTiNg piCtURe. i LikE iT sO mUch.

Exquisite shot...splendid detail...trumendous timing!!!

 

very interesting, I looked at http://bea.st/sight/doubleTrigger/index.shtml

 

and this is how we should use bullets, making art instead off....

Another great pic Jeff!

 

For those questioning this as a "composition," my understanding is Jeff utilized strobes within bulb mode. In other words, the camera is in bulb mode and the strobes only fire when the bullet just contacts the matches.

 

The flame is unflinching because it only existed AFTER the bullet had already passed (and the remainder of the bulb exposure timed out then closed the shutter), thus it appears as a perfect untouched flame, well, because it was.

Spectacular image.

Could you cheat us better?

In my opinion this is fake. There is no way in hell that there is equipment good enough to freeze a bullet in flight. A small caliber bullet (.22 LR rimfire) moves at about 1200-1500 feet per second. The frame here is probably only 3 inches. So that equates to the bullet traveling at 14,400 - 18,000 inches per second. Just think how fast the shutter must have been to freeze an object.

Thanks for comments everyone. Julius, I'm sorry to say - there are parts of this shot that are not real, but the bullet part is absolutely real, and it is a well-documented fact that you can shoot pictures of bullets. This has been true since Doc Edgerton did it in the 1920s. It doesn't require any special camera whatsoever. Turn the lights off, open the camera shutter for ~20", and trigger a microsecond strobe [that is the only specialty equipment] to fire at the right time, and you are set. I built the trigger as well, as indicated from my many other bullet photos on this site.

wonderful