About
Perfectly Timed Photos (also known as “Well-Timed Photos”) refer to photographs that are taken at opportune moments to reveal a sight of spectacle (often at high speeds) or an optical illusion, such as forced perspective. While many examples of perfectly timed photos can be seen as lucky shots captured in the nick of time, photographs like the the 9/11 Tourist Guy have been digitally manipulated to appear as if they were taken at a perfectly timed moment.
Origin
According to Wikipedia[3], the first photograph to capture a flying bullet in mid-air was taken by Austrian physicist Peter Sacher in 1886. During the early days of film photography, a series of advancements in high speed photography drastically improved the likelihood of capturing well-timed photographs, including the invention of high speed film camera by German scientists in 1916, rotating mirror camera by Cearcy Miller and rapatronic shutters by MIT professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton[18] in the 1940s.