![Water Drop I](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051538.jpeg)
Water Drop I
How exactly do you photograph a bullet in mid-air? Just ask Dutch photographer Lex Augusteijn, who specializes in this exact craft, and captures the moment a flying bullet hits objects such as eggs, light bulbs, and drops of water.
“The images are frozen by the flash speed,” says Augusteijn, who works a scientist in the Netherlands. “I can go as low as 1/40.000 by reducing flash power. The bullet is real, though fired by a coil gun, which has much less energy than an air rifle, which again has lower energy than fire arms.”
“It is all controlled by a laptop, releasing the drop, opening the shutter, firing the flash and shooting the bullet. No triggering required.”
![Water Drop II](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051553.jpeg)
Water Drop II
![Light Bulb I](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051564.jpeg)
Light Bulb I
![Light Bulb II](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051666.jpeg)
Light Bulb II
![Light Bulb III](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051671.jpeg)
Light Bulb III
![Egg](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051680.jpeg)
Egg
![Coke I](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051690.jpeg)
Coke I
![Coke II](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051702.jpeg)
Coke II
![Water Balloon I](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051707.jpeg)
Water Balloon I
![Water Balloon II](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051723.jpeg)
Water Balloon II
![Smiley Face Balloon](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051727.jpeg)
Smiley Face Balloon
![Dice](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1082051732.jpeg)
Dice