High-speed photography
![Muybridge's photographic sequence of a race horse galloping, first published in 1887.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Muybridge_race_horse_animated2356.gif")
![Nuclear explosion photographed by rapatronic camera less than 1 millisecond after detonation. The fireball is about 20 meters in diameter. The spikes at the bottom of the fireball are due to what is known as the rope trick effect.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Tumbler_Snapper_rope_tricks2356.jpg")
![A photo of a Smith & Wesson firing, taken with an air-gap flash. The photo was taken in a darkened room, with camera's shutter open and the flash was triggered by the sound of the shot using a microphone.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Bullet_coming_from_S&W2357.jpg")
![A 5 millisecond capture of coffee blown out of a straw](/Images/godic/202501/18/High_speed_photography2357.jpg")
High-speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 69 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive frames. High-speed photography can be considered to be the opposite of time-lapse photography.