AMAZING HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHS

Jaw dropping photographs by Alan Sailer, and it does not seem like he needed very expensive equipment to pull it off.  All pictures by Alan Sailer, all captions by the Telegraph staff.

 

 

High-speed photographs by Alan Sailer capture the moment a pellet fired from an air rifle hits an object

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK.  NewsOnline; How About That section

This incredible photograph by Alan Sailer captures the moment a pellet fired from an air rifle hits a paintball.

 

 

 

In this picture, a tomato gets a high-powered juicing. To create his photos, Alan uses an air rifle, a Nikon D40 camera and a homemade one-microsecond flash unit which cost him about $300

 

Alan explains that an ordinary camera flash is far too slow (one-thousandth of a second, as opposed to his one-millionth of a second unit). A glass ornament filled with cake sprinkles explodes

 

 In this picture of an exploding grape, you can clearly see the laser used to trigger the camera's shutter

 

A plastic vial filled with red dye, cornstarch and water. Alan says: "The shooting is stressful. It takes time to set up the shot and WHAM, it's all over. You may or may not have got a good picture and now there is a mess on your setup, your camera, the garage"

 

A Christmas ornament filled with orange jelly. Alan notes: "What was cool was that the jelly held the pieces of the bulb together after the shot"

 

In perhaps his most incredible photo, Alan fires a pellet at a razor blade gripped in a vice. The pellet is cut clean in half by the blade

 

Alan calls this one I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass. He says: "Four microscope slides. Shades of the famous Blade Runner death scene"

 

Tricolour Play-Doh

 

A clear Christmas ornament filled with water

 

A Concord grape explodes in a burst of red juice

 

Orange jelly experiences small scale hydrodynamic shock from a .177 pellet

 

 

An exploding tomato

See more of Alan's amazing high-speed photos on Flickr