Catching a bullet…

This past weekend was Easter. I’m hoping we started a new tradition of shooting guns on Easter because it was fun! We shot some clays and messed around with Anthony’s S&W MP9 and Rossi 357. Since I just recently got a new DSLR I’ve been taking a lot of pictures. I had an idea to set it to continuous drive and have Anthony empty the clip as fast as he could and maybe we’d get some cool shots. Well, it turned out awesome. I ended up catching a bullet streaking through the frame. At 1/1000 of a second shutter speed a bullet traveling about 1500 ft/s should move about 1.5 feet, and you can see the streak the bullet left. Too bad it wasn’t still in the frame or it would have been even cooler.

I shot this with my Canon T2i/550D and 50mm F/1.8 lens.

If we do this again, and we probably will, I’m going to try a faster shutter speed to see if I can actually catch the bullet. Maybe I’ll try to borrow a faster lens too, another stop would help.

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