Probabilities
In this photo, I caught a flash from one of the professional photogs who have studio strobes mounted to the ceiling of the gym. My shutter speed was 1/500 second, and the flash, which lasts ~1/5000 second, occurred during that period. It's extremely improbable for two events of such short duration to coincide.
Only the top of the frame is blown out because I was shooting above my sync speed--the shutter had already covered the bottom half of the frame when the flash fired. Read more about flash sync speed here: dptnt.com/2007/10/flash-sync-speed/
Probabilities
In this photo, I caught a flash from one of the professional photogs who have studio strobes mounted to the ceiling of the gym. My shutter speed was 1/500 second, and the flash, which lasts ~1/5000 second, occurred during that period. It's extremely improbable for two events of such short duration to coincide.
Only the top of the frame is blown out because I was shooting above my sync speed--the shutter had already covered the bottom half of the frame when the flash fired. Read more about flash sync speed here: dptnt.com/2007/10/flash-sync-speed/