- Eadweard Muybridge's 1878
- Matthew Burrard-Lucas 2009
- Carlos Serrao 2009
- Harold "Doc" Edgerton, 1964
- Edgerton, 1952
H.S.P. Web links
- http://www.crestock.com/blog/photography/speed-demon-photography-76.aspx
- http://digital-photography-school.com/high-speed-photography
- http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/masterpieces-of-high-speed-water-photography/5392
- http://www.flickr.com/groups/highspeed/
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.
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.
H.SP. App's
The first practical application of high-speed photography was Eadweard Muybridge's, an English photographer, 1878 investigation
into whether horses' feet were actually all off the ground at once during a gallop.
The Pioneer of H.S.P.
Doc Edgerton is generally credited with pioneering the use of the stroboscope to freeze fast motion.
He eventually helped found EG&G, which used some of Edgerton's methods to capture the physics of explosions required to detonate nuclear weapons.
See, for example, the photograph of an explosion using a Rapatronic camera.
Nuclear explosion photographed by Rapatronic camera less than 1 millisecond after detonation.
The fireball is about 20 meters in diameter. The spikes at the bottom of the fireball are due to what is known as the rope trick effect.
High Speed Photography Description
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography
as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater,
and of at least three consecutive frames. High speed photography can be considered to be the opposite of time-lapse photography.
as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater,
and of at least three consecutive frames. High speed photography can be considered to be the opposite of time-lapse photography.
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