You may have seen an earlier post on Alan Sailer, an American photographer who likes to shoot things. In his dark room, Sailer’s custom-built flash rig captures the split-second moment when a bullet makes contact with various everyday items. In his newer experiments, Sailer has taken to capturing the impact of everyday items on other everyday items and they’re equally as breathtaking. Have a look at the artier side of destruction after the jump.
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High-Speed Bullet Photography
If you enjoyed the works of Flickr user alan_sailer, you may like shots from 52-year-old amateur Dutch photographer, Lex Augusteijn. He captures the moments frozen in time as real bullets fired from a coil gun come into contact with everyday objects like eggs, light bulbs, balloons, and droplets of water.
Have a look at some of his whizz-bang high-speed bullet shots after the jump.
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Super Slo-Mo Bullet Impacts
I think it’s safe to say we know the damage that bullets can do to people and object. German engineer Werner Mehl possesses a camera system is able to track the flight of a bullet at a whopping 1 million frames per second, and doing what any man with the possession of such equipment does, he created this 10-minute clip showing the impact of bullets on different targets – before you get too excited, no people were harmed in the making of the video. It is quite beautiful, pity about the ridiculously huge watermark right in the middle of everything.
[via Neatorama]
Spotting a speeding bullet with your naked eye is almost impossible, and normal photographic flash units can’t truly capture the impact that a bullet makes after hitting an object. Flickr user alan_sailer knows a thing or two about high speed photography – not only does his super-duper flash unit produces a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second) but his setup also uses an automatic trigger mechanism.
His photographs are taken in darkness, and as the bullet passes through a laser beam, the flash is triggered, and the image is captured. Here’s a small gallery of this shots:
See more of alan_sailer’s photography on Flickr.
[via futurebackwards on Twitter]