Action Shots
You will find many amazing photos where the super-fast flash duration of a strobe has been used to freeze action small enough to be invisible to the naked eye. For example, a water droplet splashing onto a surface and making an amazing crown pattern, a piece of fruit being smashed by a hammer, or a bullet piercing an apple are all potentially wonderful shots, with much of the specialist work to capture the motion being done by highly technical pieces of equipment with amazingly short flash durations.
If you have a regular flashgun, which can have a very short flash duration at lower power settings, you might think you’d have all you need to totally freeze fast action, and you’d be partially right.
If you are shooting in a dark room ...
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