The Impossible shot #photography

[Batcave]

Bros turning into a college professor 🤯

[stopcam.iso_]

Bro became Maths Professor for the Vid 😂

[Ziggy__Z]

"Attempted Assasination Attempt." So, one tried to try to assassinate.

[content]

Not even joking, this is probably one of your best videos to date, I would love to see more videos of you going in depth about photography and describing how some of these “impossible” shots were captured. It’s insanely interesting.

[jacobbaumgardner]

To be clear. This is not the bullet itself. This is what’s known as a vapor trail, which is condensing water vapor in the humid air creates by the low pressure zone in the wake of the bullet.

[GregTurismo]

Was not expecting this lesson here but glad either way

[alexsager]

Not to mention being at f1.6. Wide angle AND wide open is crazy to catch that

[tokkke]

I'm not sure why you would think that dividing the shutter speed by the time in frame would give the odds of getting the photo. Assuming that the photographer was shooting at 30fps (the max frame rate of a Sony A1), a photo was taken every 0.033 seconds. If the bullet was in the frame for 0.01286 seconds, as you calculated, that would mean the chances of getting the photo were more like 1 in 3. If the bullet was in the frame for more than 0.033 seconds and the camera took a photo every 0.033 seconds, the odds of getting the photo would be 100%. According to you, the bullet was in the frame for about a third of that, making the odds about 1 in 3.

[thsodacan]

I just want to point out that the math in this video is incorrect.

Let me explain:
The video claims that if the bullet spends 1/100 of a second in the frame, using a shutter speed of 1 second would give a 1/100 chance of capturing it. However, with a shutter speed of 1/8000 of a second, the chance is significantly lower, not 1/100.

Logically, to correctly calculate the odds, we need to consider both the probability of the bullet being in the frame and the probability of the shutter being open at the right time. These probabilities should be multiplied, not divided.

Given a 1/100 chance of the bullet being in the frame and a 1/8000 chance of the shutter being open, the correct probability is 1/100 * 1/8000 = or about 1 in 800, 000.

[HeSo_]

There were incredible shots that were taken during that event.

Edit (apparently it was need smh): *Camera shots* not *Gun shots*

[elestudiodebuenavista]

I like this video. Talking about some incredible photos and they difficulties

[typhoon-]

So if the shutter speed is 1/8000th and the bullet is travelling 2800ft/s (about right for a 55gn .223 round at 130m), the bullet in that time would have travelled approx 4.2 inches. The streak in that image looks more like a foot long (ballpark scaled to his head) if we assume it is in roughly the same plane as Trump or behind his head as assumed.

If it was, it would suggest a shutter speed around 1/3000th (if the EXIF data shown is verified?). If the shutter speed is verified and the bullet streak IS c. 4.2 inches long as the numbers suggest then it is closer to the camera than it is to Trump, not behind his head. Which itself makes the photo even more impressive.

[John-qnex]

This is either calculated intentionally, or the best photo timing that has ever taken place in human history.

[harushdesign]

Remember there were plenty of photographers doing the same thing, increasing the odds

[DavidJohnson-gcbe]

It’s not the bullet. It’s the condensation trail. You need to redo the math based on the fraction of a second that hangs around.

[frankrinchiuso]

I love this video.People don't realize sometimes just the basic things that happen from day to day are so astronomical not to mention something extraordinary like this

[artsempai]

it’s probably not the bullet itself but it’s trail. As it moves through humid air it leaves a trail of air with different density than the air around. And the light refraction happens between the fluids of different densities and such trail stays behind for longer than the bullet itself flies through the frame

[PoliticalConservative]

The odds are probably incredibly good actually considering there are modes on cameras to continuously take photos, they then pick from the best pictures . Back in the day this would have been amazing but in 2024 it would actually be surprising if we didnt see that someone caught it

[DanFlynn]

Impressive calculations there!
Though bet the math changes some with the fact that it's the vapor trail showing and not the actual bullet

[David_Quinn_Photography]

Dough was a lucky photographer that day, he caught a historic photo and probably didn't know till he left.