re: Photographers, does this make sense?

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I don’t think it’s the bullet. It may be some kind of vapor.

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It wasn't a vapor trail. To get a vapor trail off a bullet you need atmospheric conditions at or very near to what would naturally cause fog. You also need a very fast bullet. The only cartridge I ever shot and perceived a vapor trail was .257 Weatherby Mag and they probably chronoed 3800+.

What you are seeing is called bullet trace. It is the change in refraction of light cause by the pressurized air as it is pushed aside by the bullet. You can not perceive it with your eyes with a bullet moving left to right but you can from directly behind it. It hangs in the air long enough to be caught by a camera going left to right. I have watched it hundreds of times from the bench shooting F-class or standing directly behind someone on the line. You can follow the travel of the bullet to the target or more usefully to "not the target" when you miss paper and there isn't a dust kick.


Just a guy in the pit shooting the correct exposure through a fast lens that wanted (or was OK with) limited depth of field. He was also shooting big/fast bursts which gave him that amazing shot. Nothing about this indicates any sort of conspiracy in and of itself. Just the musings of someone with just enough knowledge to hang himself or possibly full knowledge that just wants to push an agenda, plenty of people responding to the tweet were lapping it up.

I’ve captured vapor trace several times over the years with both still cameras and video. It’s not that unusual and most times is dependent upon some backlighting.

And yes, I’ve captured it at lower ISO and FPS.

1/4000 or 1/8000 doesn't surprise me at all on a bright, blue sky day like that. Also, that may be the actual bullet or may be the liquifaction of blood/tissue from the hit. Or maybe boiling might be the better term.

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Please explain, you think Trump was set up, or you think Trump set up someone to come an inch from blowing his head off?

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Lol.

I think Trump was set up.

Everything that occurs is a conspiracy. Right?

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Everything that occurs is a conspiracy. Right?

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The good thing about Twitter under Elon, this Twitter post got community noted. When I initially posted this tweet it did not have the community note. Now it does which explains the photograph.


We have to move away from calling inquisitive people conspiracy theorists.

Today predominately on social media, including this place, is the location where questions, even stupid questions get fleshed out. More speech not less.

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Just a guy in the pit shooting the correct exposure through a fast lens that wanted (or was OK with) limited depth of field. He was also shooting big/fast bursts which gave him that amazing shot. Nothing about this indicates any sort of conspiracy in and of itself. Just the musings of someone with just enough knowledge to hang himself or possibly full knowledge that just wants to push an agenda, plenty of people responding to the tweet were lapping it up.

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This

People that actually believe it was a setup and a photog was prepared to capture it are legitimate retards

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The good thing about Twitter under Elon, this Twitter post got community noted. When I initially posted this tweet it did not have the community note. Now it does which explains the photograph.


We have to move away from calling inquisitive people conspiracy theorists.

Today predominately on social media, including this place, is the location where questions, even stupid questions get fleshed out. More speech not less.

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Being you like to ask questions, ask yourself this question:

Do you predominantly, or even exclusively, ask questions that would serve to bolster your social and/or political beliefs, or do you just as doggedly ask questions that would utterly undermine your closely held beliefs?

If the latter, well, that sounds exhausting, but more power to you. If the former, you should give some thought about whether you're actually inquisitive, or whether you're so driven by confirmation bias that you've lost track of reality.

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Do you predominantly, or even exclusively, ask questions that would serve to bolster your social and/or political beliefs,

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I'm human so I'm predisposed to doing this.

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do you just as doggedly ask questions that would utterly undermine your closely held beliefs?

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I feel like I do this all the time. I love being challenged. Helps me become more informed and at times reenforce or bolster my arguments and sometimes being challenged I get corrected or "knocked down a notch" so to speak. But that's okay. It's how it supposed to work, IMO.

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I feel like I do this all the time. I love being challenged. Helps me become more informed and at times reenforce or bolster my arguments and sometimes being challenged I get corrected or "knocked down a notch" so to speak. But that's okay. It's how it supposed to work, IMO.

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Being open to being challenged isn't the same thing as actively seeking out information that would contradict your beliefs.

As an example, since this assassination attempt, I've watched some on the left assert that it was a false flag to solidify support for Trump; I've watched basically everyone on the right accuse them of being absolutely horrible people for even considering that as a possibility.

Yet, for the past several years, I watched some on the right claim every major public shooting to be a false flag intended to undermine the right, while the entire left accused them of being absolutely horrible people for even considering that as a possibility.

If it had been Biden on that stage instead, would you be on here posting about shutter speeds showing that this was a grand conspiracy that even the media was in on, or would you be reposting tweets talking about why this might be a false flag to save Biden's election hopes?