Interesting image. Nice.
testing out the sigma 30 1.4
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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.
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.
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 That's 1/60 on a curtain shutter (this may be outdated).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
You must have misread the EXIF info, Dale. Both shots were a full 1/4s,
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