On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:34, frank theriault wrote:
I'm still working on them, but here's a small gallery of pix taken on
the weekend. As you can see, I took some race photos with flash, and
I'm rather torn on how I feel about them - sharper, but I'm not sure I
like the "frozen action".
Nice stuff, Frank!
If you don't like the "frozen" part, you can get quite creative with
the use/balance of flash with existing light.
(Depends on which flash you have, of course)
If you have a flash which can do "trailing curtain" you can set the
ISO for, say, 400. Set the aperture for f5.6 or something and set the
shutter speed to 1/30 with a "trailing curtain" sync.
This lets a lot of light in as you pan across, and then the flash goes
BANG and freezes the subject - with the element of motion and blur
still visible in the shot.
If you have a standard "auto thyristor" flash, you can't do the
trailing curtain. I think, if you are just using the built-in flash,
you CAN use trailing curtain flash. Others who know more about the
original *IST can jump in and correct me if I'm all fulla beans.
Anyway, for your amusement:
http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/compendium-of-icycle-09-photographs.html
Always shocks me when you sneak a color shot in there!
-Charles
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