Yuri Acurs, the world's top-selling microstock photographer, will go to great lengths to prove he's right, and the video above is a great case in point for that. He wanted to prove that he could flash freeze a fighter jet at full speed, and he got that shot. ALl he needed was appromimately 30,000Wof filll flash... no big deal.
For those unfamiliar with how studio lighting usually works, 30,000W is as much as 100 times more flash than you're going to typically use in a regular studio setting. So muh flash power being thrown at this jet that the people on the ground can actully feel the heat from the lights.
Apparently, the project started as "A heated in-house discussion about flash speeds [and] ended up becoming a rather BIGGGG experiment..." An experiment that ended with Acurs getting his shot and proving his point.
Impressive doesn't cut it. This seems near to impossible. Using 30,000W to prove a point, seems a bit far fetched but Yuri Acurs, did exactly that. Capturing a fighter jet in mid-air at full force. But it is coming down to, was this too much trouble or was this one of those ideas that became an incredible reality?