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- projectstartrek, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20At first glance I thought this was some ActionScript hack...
- Spacecow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9So are they "great" or just "pretty good?" BE CONSISTENT, GODDAMNIT.
- dogbowl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10One I managed to grab at a Phish show when a glowstick war broke out. I had no idea what I was doing; pretty lucky the picture turned out as good as it did.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74702316@N00/177461912/ - InstantRamen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Bitch i will slap your ass if you don't have my money. where the ***** is my money.
- andrewkendall, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Our little contribution to the world of slow sync: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=50&paged=3
- justconnor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5wow, some were killer but some were just TERRIBLE. must've been taken by the writer or his friends...
- misconstrued, on 10/10/2007, -1/+512 is my favorite. Great pictures.
- jhaks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think what you are talking about is slow shutter speed. With long shutter delay anything moving in the picture will cause a streak since it is exposed at multiple positions across the film/sensor. Stationary subjects will expose the exact same portion of the sensor and the effect is a brighter subject. The problem you're having is either because you are taking moving subjects or because when you shoot the picture the act of pushing the button and releasing it causes some jitter. To get past this see if your camera has a short delay timer (2 secs) so your finger wont jitter the camera when the shutter goes off. If there isn't a short timer, go for the normal timer.
As for the content of the article it uses a delayed flash in combination with a slow shutter. The flash comes at the end of the shutter time and causes flashed subjects to be illuminated more than the rest of the scene and since the flash is so bright in a short exposure time the subject isn't blurry. Actually though I think the picture with the knife is using a stroboscopic flash: the flash goes off multiple times during the exposure which results in a picture where the motion looks stopped at certain intervals; that's why you can see four distinct hands. - fthead9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Very cool images, love the slow sync effects.
- phirestyle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Drummer: I GOTTA DOOKIE!!!
- onestyle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The slow shutter allows you to take in ambient light under low-light situations, then everything "freezes" once the flash hits. A lot of night-life photographers use this technique, dragging out the shutter anywhere between 0.3 to 4 seconds. It's pretty easy to do (once you've invested in the equipment) and is alot of fun as well
here's my take on the matter: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=451997302&size=l
in this example, the orange cast is created from the ambient light (which happens to be a backyard lamp) while the flash illuminated her final instance - mbelleghem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2One professional photog who's used slow-sync flash to great effect is Len Weigh, aka "Ellway", a one-man institution in Melbourne, Australia's underground clubbing scene. For those who've not seen the effect used before, there's nothing like having a professional photographer come up to you in the middle of a massive dance party with ten bazillion lights and lasers, snapping a razor-sharp image of you and your mates in the foreground, with half the rave smeared across in technicolour in the background. He's a great guy, too - you can czech some of his work out here: http://www.ellway.com.au/
(no affiliation other than that I've been rather impressed with his work) - ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'm a photography noob, and I don't get how they manage to keep the target super sharp while using Slow Sync/Time Exposure. When I do it, I always get too much camera jitter, which makes everything burry, even on a tripod.
- noblepenguin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You use a slow shutter speed. Then pop your flash on the subject. The subject is lit by the flash while the background remains lit by the ambient light. So long as you don't get too much light from the flash lighting up your background you'll get that swirly blur of ambient light colors getting all mixed together. It helps to have a background a couple of stops darker than you subject when you light it/him/her.
- knetworx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm not a photographer or anything, but I suspect the technique would be to leave the shutter open for a long time *without* the main subject in the picture, have them move into the picture quickly, use the flash so that a lot of light reflected from the subject is captured by the camera in a single instant, then close the shutter. The whole time the subject isn't in the photo, little bits of light are collected from the surrounding objects over a period of time (while either the camera or the objects are moving around) causing them to blur, but then when the subject is in the photo for a very short period of time, using the flash on them will cause their image (light reflected from their body) to be collected all at once, causing it to not be blurred.
Hmm.....I should test this theory........ - phirestyle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Dude!!!
Not safe for work! Son of a bitch...
My boss was right behind me! - bouche, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've played around with this technique. I think it will take a lot of practice to get right, but paired with a creative idea, this is a fantastic way of getting more out of your photography.
- misconstrued, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Cool picture!
- jhaks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1@ knetworx
What you are describing is the technique used in the article. Although there isn't really a need to have the subject move into the photo if they aren't moving. If the shutter speed is under two seconds or so the subject shouldn't be blurry. - noblepenguin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"fast" flash. Slow shutter speed.
- Ifligus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You can make someone look like a ghost as well with slow synch flash. I took the following pic a couple weeks ago which illustrates this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeyoujimmy/1343874003/
- misconstrued, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Definitely not safe for work :)
http://ambrel.net/2007/0407-ratedx/index.html - KMye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The idea is that frame is open for such a long time and everything else is usually so dimly lit that whatever the flash catches overwhelms whatever else was being exposed there. Because the flash only activates for tiny fraction of second, there are no jitters in the flash-exposed subjects.
- flap, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"great" is being used very loosely here I hope.
- davdav, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1my favorite images that use this technique are at http://ambrel.net/
look at the older nightlife photos, they are incredible - driverdave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0here is my contribution http://www.evsdesigns.com/photos/view/76
- mhmdkhamis, on 12/15/2007, -0/+0http://mobile.free-software.cc/
I'm a photography noob, and I don't get how they manage to keep the target super sharp while using Slow Sync/Time Exposure. When I do it, I always get too much camera jitter, which makes everything burry, even on a tripod.
http://directory.free-software.cc/ - maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The trick is to combine it with a flash that triggers just before the shutter closes.
- davewho, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1great job saving copyrighted images and putting them on your own copyrighted website!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1These look like royalty free stock photos.
- tinselsnips, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1This.
- Ilikesheep, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0FAKE!
- DannySpace, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Is this really a "slow flash" technique? Not a time delay aperture technique?
- specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Great, I'm wondering if you can make something close to that with photoshop.
- lordspidey, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3[Stamp of Wicked Sweet]™
- dallyp, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/slow-sync-flash-3-1.jpg
Wow. - MattNH, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0My contribution and 1st post!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_matt/359050664/
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