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Loading ...Harold Edgerton’s famous high speed picture of a bullet going through an apple. Taken in 1964, it became a very famous image , not least because it was such an unusual photo based on a great achievement in high speed photography. Edgerton, professor at MIT, is also inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography. He collaborated with Jacques-Yves Cousteau to experiment photographing some of the deepest seabeds in the world.
![Stopping Time [1964]](http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bullet-apple-s.jpg)
Photographer: Harold Edgerton
Source: stanford.edu
see the attitude of that bullet….
To put this in perspective most professional cameras cap out at a shutter speed of 1/8000th of a second which considering your average speed of a high powered rifle is somewhere around 2700 fps, this would catch the bullet moving about 4 inches at full velocity, It looks like there is about 1/8″ to 1/4″ of motion blur putting this shutter at about 1/128000th – 1/256000th of a second speed requiring a great deal of ISO and a hell of a lot of light.
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The apple is on top of a bullet and its case
you don’t see that everyday. it’s really cool.
I think taht this photowas very powerful adn that express that the bullet can be very dangerous!
This photo is going to be on exhibit at the Figge Art Museum in Iowa in September 08. Here is a link to the exhibit:
http://www.figgeartmuseum.org/Exhibitions.aspx
You should see what a bullet does to a watermelon.
Messy, messy, messy.
perhaps he took more than one? like really fast shutter speed or something?
then he just saw that in among all the others.
i dunno. its still amazing. O.O
thats great and amazing!!
the photo was taken using a ‘stroboscope’ which the photographer invented himself.. it’s sort of like a strobe light & was the first electronic flash the world has seen.
this was taken somewhere between 1/50 000 to 1/1 000 000 of a second.. which is ridiculously amazing.
he even caught an image at 1 billionth of a second. this guy was insane.
its called stopping time
Apparently the title is “Stopping Time”.
What I would be interested in is the shutter speed and also how the shutter was synched up with the event, especially taking into consideration this photo is over forty years old.
wow, how fast would you have to be to capture that?
..um, sorry i was browsing for pictures to do for photograpghy mixed media, and i found this site. can someone please tell me the name of this photograpgh? i know the phtograpgher, it’s just the title i need, thanks^^
thats amazing