High speed photos of bullets

[coylh]

If you think shooting fast moving animals is difficult, try shooting bullets slicing water drops. That’s the kind of mind-boggling photography that Alexander Augusteijn does. There’s no tricks or clever Photoshop manipulations involved… just dedication and a whole lotta patience.

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/08/31/the-amazing-high-speed-bullet-photography-of-alexander-augusteijn/

 

[CoastieShep]

Pretty cool. But am I the only one wondering *** kind of bullets are those? I saw one was just a pellet, but can't figure out those long pointy ones are.

 

[Owen Sparks]

It looks like some kind of low velocity .22. The photographer is quoted as saying that it sometimes takes several hundred tries to get one picture so it is probably something relitivly cheap.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

It isn't so much that the bullet is slicing a water drop, but the splash up of water after something is dropped into it. That is why the bullets appear to pierce the zuzvela shaped spire extending up from the water.

 

[303Jeff]

It looks like some kind of low velocity .22. The photographer is quoted as saying that it sometimes takes several hundred tries to get one picture so it is probably something relitivly cheap.

I don't think so, just because I've captured .22 bullets and on the back of them you can still see the heel that seats the bullet in the cartridge. These bullets are heel-free. They must be pellets of some kind, or perhaps .17 HMR?

 

[303Jeff]

Also the photographers website has some really great stuff on it. There's a section with bullets hitting all kinds of stuff.

 

[rondog]

Seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg