Actually it's super standard to use fast shutter speeds in broad day light lol. The faster the shutter speed the less light gets in , the darker it gets the slower your speed could be to make up for low light. The slower shutter speed more light gets in. You can also adjust the aperture of course to control light. He could have been shooting on aperture priority and easily gotten this. I don't think this guy knows anything about photography. Maybe videography since he mentioned frames per second but that's not really a term you use for photography. That being said, a journalist would want a fast shutter speed as well to make sure they are capturing every second.
Agreed. FPS is a video metric while shutter speed is a photography metric. 1/8000 is a little extreme of a speed for slow moving action. Usually you run that shutter speed for sports etc. That said, not unusual for full light photography. The photographer would have had to known an almost exact time when the shots would be fired and hold the shutter release down to get 10-15 images per second in hopes of catching the bullet as it whizzed by.
Actually it's super standard to use fast shutter speeds in broad day light lol. The faster the shutter speed the less light gets in , the darker it gets the slower your speed could be to make up for low light. The slower shutter speed more light gets in. You can also adjust the aperture of course to control light. He could have been shooting on aperture priority and easily gotten this. I don't think this guy knows anything about photography. Maybe videography since he mentioned frames per second but that's not really a term you use for photography. That being said, a journalist would want a fast shutter speed as well to make sure they are capturing every second.
And faster shutter means sharper image as the subject has less time to move while the shutter is open.
Agreed. FPS is a video metric while shutter speed is a photography metric. 1/8000 is a little extreme of a speed for slow moving action. Usually you run that shutter speed for sports etc. That said, not unusual for full light photography. The photographer would have had to known an almost exact time when the shots would be fired and hold the shutter release down to get 10-15 images per second in hopes of catching the bullet as it whizzed by.