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Photo of the Day : January 2011
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Both of these images are good examples of "dragging the shutter" (I'm not sure which of the two I prefer).
Presumably you used a longish shutter speed to create the blurring of the background lights and then "freezed" everything with your flash. New Year's is a perfect time for this technique. You've captured the "craziness" and dynamic nature of New Year's eve well. It's about people but also a bit surreal given the amount of alcohol usually involved.
Nice.
testing out the sigma 30 1.4
Whenever I see Barbie pics (not necessarily Barbie in this case, but it's the same idea) I think of Burning Man. Not sure you intended it, but I will read into your image a statement about commercialism. Combined with the Christmas theme, this is "priceless."
candelabra by tristangage, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 300D Digital
Exposure 0.077 sec (1/13)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 55 mm
ISO Speed 400
I'm very unimaginative when naming my pictures.
Excellant use of greyscale. This image has many of the continuous tone properties usually reserved for film only. Must have been difficult to achieve, but you nailed it.
Both of your New Year's photos convey the joy of the moment. Nice choice of shot.
Question on the technique: Dragging the shutter is using flash with a fairly long shutter speed, the default is something like 1/60 second and this is shot at 1/25 sec. Does your Speedlight/5D setup allow you to fire the flash at a given point in the exposure like at the beginning or end of the shutter opening? On film the shutter has to be fully open for flash to prevent taking a slice of the photo. That's 1/60 on a curtain shutter (this may be outdated). My fuzzy math says that you had around 1/8 second on either side of this window to fire the flash on the whole image. You could flash then drag from the subject or drag then flash to the subject.
Happy New Year to all.
Dale
Thanks, Kallisti. Yes, this technique was the obvious choice for capturing the raw enthusiasm of the night.
You must have misread the EXIF info, Dale. Both shots were a full 1/4s, so quite slow. They're very straightforward examples of dragging the shutter: slow shutter speed and rear curtain sync (which is preferable so that the subjects are superimposed over their ghost images instead of the other way around). If you have at least three stops of difference between the ambient light and the flash, then there won't be ghost images at all. So you just have to get the balance right for the effect you want and then time the panning to get the amount of light trails you want.
As far as I know, most modern DSLRs will give you the option of first or second curtain.
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Fled to NYC Central Park today to escape the New Year's Madness at the house today . Took my Canon and a 35/2 intending on trying to reproduce some stuff I did when I was in college back in prehistoric days . Didn't succeed , but while walking around there was a family ahead of me with several little kids . One looks down and says " Hey ... There's a snowman in that footprint!" . Sure was , there's gotta be a story behind its' being there...
Happy New Year to everyone! Although, mine started off poorly as I accidentally left my D3000 in a cab last night, like an idiot. It's a shame, too, because I had my brand new 50mm 1.4 lens on there, with which I was rapidly falling in love. Now it's up to the lost and found people at the cab company to see if they can find it...
Anyway, here's a photo I took of my friend the other day on one of the rooftop parks in downtown Calgary.
Anyway, here's a photo I took of my friend the other day on one of the rooftop parks in downtown Calgary.
Finally made it to Temple Square for the Christmas lights. Shot with a 24mm T/S Tilted and Shifted on a Canon 5D Mark II.
Shifting was used to straighten the edges, tilting to add the blur. Only PP was to add a little vignette; Tungsten WB.
Shifting was used to straighten the edges, tilting to add the blur. Only PP was to add a little vignette; Tungsten WB.
Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 125