Freezing a fighter jet in flight with a 30,000W flash lamp

by geekzhang on 2013-11-18 21:38:49

Yuri Acurs is a world-renowned best-selling microstock photographer. Recently, to prove that it's possible to photograph fighter jets flying at full speed from the ground, he used a set of flashlights with a total power of 30,000W, and the final effect is shown in the image below.

What does a 30,000W flashlight set mean? The power of an ordinary indoor flashlight is about 300W, which means this flashlight set is 100 times more powerful than an ordinary flashlight. According to feedback from the staff on the shooting site, during the flash instant, they could feel the enormous heat generated by the light set.

Actually, supplementary lighting wasn't the biggest issue that needed to be overcome in this shooting task. There are quite a few people online mocking the shooting equipment he used: Hasselblad, because its shutter lag can be long enough to drive someone crazy. However, Yuri believes that high-speed synchronized flash is the key to shooting, and responded by saying:

"Compared to the flash synchronization speed of 1/200-1/250s for Canon and Nikon DSLRs, Hasselblad can achieve 1/800s."