Strobe photography

Golf Swing, 1938

A bullet being shot through an apple, an egg being cracked into a fan, or a play-by-play of Pancho Gonzales's famous serve ... MIT professor Harold Edgerton invented the strobe flash in the 1930s – and his stroboscopic photography captured amazing moments that would otherwise be missed in the blink of an eye

Claire Luce

Build a Mechanical Camera Stroboscope / Strobe: After reading a couple of online articles about building your own mechanical camera stroboscope I decided I had to try it. Here are some photos of my build. Its a pretty simple affair. A toy motor turns a disk, with a hole in it, in front of a camer…

Photos of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz legends playing at photographer Gjon Mili's studio in the 1940s.

I recently learned how to shoot "stroboscopic" photos and I thought I'd share what I learned. The word "stroboscopic" sounds daunting and super technical, but really all it means is "shooting a photo with a strobe light". In this case, the strobe light is an external flash... #Canon5DMarkII #flash

Harold Edgerton invented the electronic flash – which allowed him to capture things the human eye cannot see. Stephen Dowling looks at his legacy.

Stroboscopic photography Ringuz

Whenever I am planning a shoot with a dancer I face the challenge of coming up with fresh ways to capture their movement. Sometimes I put my camera on a tripod and use a long exposure to capture their fluidity. Or I might have the dancer stand still while I move my camera, which creates a similar-ye