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Shot of a drop shot

Colored water drop shot by a bullet.
Whole schene itself shot by a 40D.
The secondary drop on top of the water cone is still intact, while the cone itself was pierced by the bullet.

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mohammad hossein malekzadeh 5 months ago

WOW

Herman Plessis 5 months ago

Just show you what can be done if your maths are right. Great piece of work to get your calibration right - well done!

Vimmy 5 months ago

Amazing

Peter Majkut 6 months ago

excelent !!!

Denis Flémal 7 months ago

WOW !

Loai Zamzami 10 months ago

AWESOME !!! :D

ketki karachiwala 11 months ago

hey can i use this image??

and Cite it??

reply
ketki.karachiwala@unt.edu

Louka Pics Photography 1 year ago

This is THE BEST WATER PHOTO EVER !!!! =D

Lex Augusteijn Thanks Louka!

Louka Pics Photography You are so welcome !! :)

Dmitry Laudin 1 year ago

WOW

Huseyin Karasu 1 year ago

Very amazing shoot

Antonyus Bunjamin 1 year ago

wow...very amazing shoot..

RAJA JAY 1 year ago

no words

Rosko 2 years ago

fuuuuuuu simply perfect !!! WOW

anto XIII 2 years ago

wowwww

wafa khalid 2 years ago

amazing !! thanx for the explaining ..

Richard Toro 2 years ago

Impressive!

divemako 2 years ago

Centurial shot !!! wow............!!

Thomas Ljungberg 2 years ago

Now this is an achievement! Not only all the work to get the timing right, but you did a good job lighting the scene nicely as well and thought of coloring the drop!

R.Serfilippi 2 years ago

Sorry for my bad English,
but i'd like to say all my appreciate of this image.
I don't understand how you can make this shot,
is incredible and seems an impossible thing.
All my compliments.
Ciao,

Roby.

ChobiWaLa 2 years ago

Yeap!... Incredible!!
One of the best shot I have ever seen!!!

KRTA 2 years ago

OK, this is impossible :P

krchnak123 2 years ago

for me one of the best shots i have ever seen, really great

Lex Augusteijn Thanks for the compliment.
It took quite an effort to get this shot!

Richard Krchnak i believe you. Its an unbelievable timing +++ :)

Th Block 2 years ago

crazy

:o)
lg Tom

Bill Drago 3 years ago

Great work! Can you tell us the specs on the gun/round? I would love to know how fast that bullet was going.

Lex Augusteijn Sure.
Gun is a coil gun (google it if you don't know), home brew, controlled by my laptop.
Bullet speed is medium, around 25m/s. My air rifle goes up to 100 m/s, with lighter bullets though. My water balloon picture was taken with the use of this air rifle.
Fire arms are not very legal in the Netherlands, so I do not use those. For shooting more robust objects, like larger kinds of fruit they are essential though.
Having relatively low bullet velocity helped in calibrating the whole scenery.

WARNING: Coil guns store lethal doses of electric charge. Do not build them when you are not experienced.

Edy Santosa 3 years ago

Perfect technique...salute!!!

Carola Lundmark 3 years ago

Fantastic frozen moment!
Best regards Carola

MarieM 3 years ago

Absoument incroyable !

Ivo Pregelj 3 years ago

Fantastic work!

Cupcake 3 years ago

Great capture~~~~~~~~~~~~~

KPK 3 years ago

Brillant!

Marie DAYNIE 3 years ago

Incroyable et fantastique!Bravo!

Ralf Stelander 3 years ago

That is really impressive! How in the world did you manage the timing? From what I know they do these with femto-cameras 10^-15 seconds shutter speed =)

Lex Augusteijn Well, light travels 3.10^-7 m/fs, which is 300 nm in a fs.
I don't think my shutter will be faster than that :-)
Timing accuracy for these shots is around 100 microseconds (1/10,000 s).

Tommy Str 3 years ago

Reminds me of that famous shot (featured in LIFE magazine I think) of the apple being pierced by a bullet. This is excellent and as mentioned superb idea to combine these two concepts. Something unique!

EricC 3 years ago

Never seen anything like it!

dimitar 3 years ago

absolutely amazing work! Nothing else to say, perfect. Though I guess it's not such a hard shot to do once you have all the technical stuff around, it's pretty much press the button, tune a bit, press the button, tune.. until you get it right :-)

Lex Augusteijn Not really, nobody pressed any button.
My laptop did it all :-).

Roland Larsson Well done but who owns the picture? I have been told that the picture belongs to the one who pressed the shutter button but in this case it is your laptop :) Copyright, My Laptop :o

Zaahir Essa yeah, as in any photograph to ever exist, all you have to do is click? pretty easy eh.

amazing shot.

enzo penna 3 years ago

very good work

Andrei Baciu 3 years ago

wow X 10 !!

adam martin cohen 3 years ago

---> wow

Andrea Auf dem Brinke 3 years ago

Oh, My God! please tell me how did you do it!

Claudio Solera 3 years ago

Chapeau! Ciao,Claudio.

Carnisch 3 years ago

Impressive.
I like it.
How many times did you shoot before taking the right picture?

Lex Augusteijn Around 350 shots in one evening.
It took about 300 shots to get everthing set up.
Then another 50 to get a good one.
Out of these last 50, half was a hit.
This one I liked best.

Carnisch Thanks for your feedback and congrats again for the idea and the execution.

nicuh 3 years ago

excellent shot...grats!nic

jimmy hoffman 3 years ago

Very cool shot!

Mats Lilja 3 years ago

Fantastic shot! Well done!!

Fabio Giannelli 3 years ago

no way..this is crazy...incredible...

Anna Lepke 3 years ago

What? This is not possible :o
... How did you do this?

I don't get it.
(Oh, I read your explanation.)

Impressive work.

Guillaume Legraverend 3 years ago

Fantasticcccccccc !

Monique 3 years ago

just impossible!!

Niels Christian Wulff 3 years ago

One question, how on earth did you do this..................????

Amazing and very well made :-)

/Wulff

Vidar 3 years ago

How on earth did you do this???? Shuttertime, please!

Lex Augusteijn This is were arts meets technology, you can not do this without control over the whole setup.

Shutter 1/10, f9, ISO 400
What counts in high speed photography is not the shutter time, but rather the exposure time, which in this case is flash duration, around 1/20,000 sec.

Water was colored by red dye. The red drop first spreads out over the surface, then retracts to form a cone, where often a drop splits off. This contains mostly water from the original drop.

Vidar Thank you very much for your explanation, Lex! Impressive work. I've had a look at your other high speed photo too, and i will advice everyone to do the same

Vidar