High Speed Photo

This image was taken by Andrew Davidhazy. Click here.

• This photo shows a tomato being pierced through by a bullet. The tomato itself is being blown up by the impact of the bullet. The background is solid black.

• Finding the appropriate shutter speed to capture this image could have been a difficulty in capturing this image because a bullet travels extremely fast. Also since the shutter speed must have been very high, it could not have captured much light, so there must have been many lighting equipment to keep the image bright. Finding the exact moment to take the picture must have also been a difficulty because the bullet being fired is almost instantaneous, so many shots must have been taken to find the best image.

• This picture gives you a sense of motion because of the exploding tomato. The two sides of the tomato are being blown up and the impact of the bullet is so great that tomato juice is flying all over. You can also see the bullet being already pierced out of the tomato, which also gives you a sense of its motion.