.: Homenaje a la fotografia de Alan Sailer.

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Homenaje a la fotografia de Alan Sailer.

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In this picture, a tomato gets a high-powered juicing. To create his photos, Alan uses an air rifle, a Nikon D40 camera and a homemade one-microsecond flash unit which cost him about $300

He explains that an ordinary camera flash is far too slow (one-thousandth of a second, as opposed to his one-millionth of a second unit). A glass ornament filled with cake sprinkles explodes

In this picture of an exploding grape, you can clearly see the laser used to trigger the camera's shutter

A strawberry is hit with a .177 pellet from an air rifle, with a velocity of about 500 feet per second. Alan says: "The laser trigger is to the left of the strawberry. I have variable delay after the trigger. So if there is too much mayhem, I lower the delay. Not enough exploding parts, raise the delay"

A plastic vial filled with red dye, cornstarch and water. Alan says: "The shooting is stressful. It takes time to set up the shot and WHAM, it's all over. You may or may not have got a good picture and now there is a mess on your setup, your camera, the garage"

A Christmas ornament filled with orange jelly. Alan notes: "What was cool was that the jelly held the pieces of the bulb together after the shot"

In perhaps his most incredible photo, Alan fires a pellet at a razor blade gripped in a vice. The pellet is cut clean in half by the blade

"Es quizás la foto más increíble. Alan dispara un "diabolo" o posta de rifle contra una hoja de afeitar y este pasa haciendo un corte limpio a la mitad.