High Speed Photography By Alan Sailer

'The camera is set at one second and an f-stop 9-13 depending on the reflectivity the subject. The flash stops the action. The one second gives me time to click the camera shutter with one hand while I pull the trigger on the rifle with the other.'
'I have a delay circuit that I can use to time the flash, so that it goes f when the pellet hits the target. The explosion is the shock the pellet hitting the target.'
Mr Sailer, who experimented with a huge range objects for the series, snapped everything from Bratz dolls to mushrooms in his efforts to take the most visually effective images - and in some cases liked the idea more than the result.