high speed photography
Splash Heroes “Villains Edition” is the most epic 2020 calendar you’ll ever see
Dec 4, 2019
John Aldred
I’ve been following Aurum Light’s “milk dress” photography for a few years now. It’s an amazing technique that’s been imitated a bunch, but nobody else…
This insane camera rig spins a Phantom slow motion camera at 150rpm (32mph)
Aug 16, 2019
John Aldred
Steve Giralt is pretty well known for pushing things to the extreme when it comes to super slow-motion video. This time, though, he’s gone way…
This guy built a high speed DIY LED flash and put the plans online so you can make your own
May 17, 2019
John Aldred
LED flash still hasn’t really hit the mainstream yet. There are a couple of products out there, of course, like the Rotolite Neo, but for…
How to make a cheap DIY bullet time rig with a lazy susan and some drawer slides
May 14, 2019
John Aldred
It’s 20 years since The Matrix was released (don’t you feel old?), but the bullet time effect is still incredibly popular. I don’t know what the…
This look inside the IIHS shows us what it takes to make crash test photography for cars
Feb 2, 2019
John Aldred
This video from the Insuurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) takes us behind the scenes to see their camera rigs for shooting video and stills…
Photographer creates pin-up styled movie heroines with colorful milk splashes [NSFW]
Dec 5, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
Photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz has shared his splendid work with us before. His signature technique is high-speed photography of models “dressed” in milk splashes. After Milky…
This hypnotizing video of slo-mo lightning took 30 days, 20,000 miles and 10TB of data
Dec 4, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
Thunderstorms are awe-inspiring, whether you watch them live, in photos or in videos. But videographer and photographer Dustin Farrell has made a slow-motion video that…
The secret to filming fast moving objects at 25 million frames per second is mirrors
Nov 20, 2017
John Aldred
As much as I love going out and using gear and creating stuff with it, I can’t help but get excited about the geeky technical…
How to fake bullet-time effect on a budget and with a single camera
Sep 18, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
I still remember my first impression when I saw the bullet time effect in Matrix. And it’s still awesome to this day. Of course, it’s…
The world’s fastest camera captures the movement of light at five trillion photos per second
May 2, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
High-speed cameras are certainly useful for slow motion, but they can also find their application in science. Elias Kristensson and Andreas Ehn, researchers at Swedish…