High Speed Photography : Frozen in Time
In a blink of the eye, a lot can happen. A lot of astonishing things happen in a split of a second, but they are moving too quickly for us to see. High-speed photography is the art of photographing a rapidly occurring event.
Depending on the event to be photographed, methods range from the use of ultra-short time flash exposures to producing lots of exposures in a split-second. Seemingly frozen in time, a lot of photographers have their particular method of doing high-speed photography.
The usual photographic flash component offers a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). But the photographic flash component used in high-speed photography is so much quicker than this, and it creates a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This lets you freeze time through pictures that are happening tremendously fast.
It’s not easy to come up with a perfect shot while capturing a rapidly occurring event; photographers that specialize in this type of photography are masters of patience. Below are some incredibly fresh images that show the beautiful combination of artistic expression and technical precision.
#1 @Avi_Abrams
#1 @Beforethecoffee
![breaking the rules](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/breaking-the-rules.jpg)
#2 @Burrard Lucas
![blue tit](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/blue_tit_flying-High-speed-photography.jpg)
#3 @David Neff
![cig](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/cig.jpg)
#4 @Fiat
![crash test](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/crash-test.jpg)
#5 @Tpphoto
![kiwi drop](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/kiwi-drop.jpg)
#6 @Bda668
![near death experience](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/near-death.jpg)
#7 @Aziz J.Hayat
![water animation](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/water-animation.jpg)
#8 @Michael Durham
![frog leap](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/frog-leap.jpg)
#9 @David Neff
![bullet shot](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/bullet-shot.jpg)
#10 @Fotoopa
![waterfigure](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/waterfigure.jpg)
#11 @Robert D Bruce
![happy new year](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/happy-new-year.jpg)
#12 @James Neeley
![lights out](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/lights-out.jpg)
#13 @Aziz J.Hayat
![balloon explosion](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/balloon-explosion.jpg)
#14 @Alastair Batchelor
![whiplash](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/whiplash.jpg)
#15 @Mark Watson
![smash](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/smash.jpg)
#16 @Fotoopa
![flower](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/flower.jpg)
#17 @OSUSTUDENT
![dart](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/dart.jpg)
#18 @Jens Erik Mikkelsen
![from below](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/from-below.jpg)
#19 @Swashbuckle Pics
![broken bulb](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/broken-bulb.jpg)
#20 @Photoboothguy
![death to tomatoes](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/death-to-tomatoes.jpg)
#21 @Alan Sailer
![santa better watch out](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/santa-better-watch-out.jpg)
#22 @Micah Camara
![hairflip](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/the-infamous-hairflip.jpg)
#23 @Fotoopa
![waterfigure](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/waterfigure-ii.jpg)
#24 @Byredis
![cognac](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/cognac.jpg)
#25 @Infiltrator
![high speed balloon](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/High_Speed_Balloon_Ripping_by_infiltrator.jpg)
#26 @Andrew Davidhazy
![shotgun](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/Shotgun-shot-high-speed-photography.jpg)
#27 @LSG
![nikon splash](https://assets.hongkiat.com/uploads/high-speed-photography/nikon-splash.jpg)
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