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Obviously to take the picture i hope to attach is easy... i want to take a similar picture , but i dont want a blurred model. i've seen a wedding picture where 2 on the right of the bride paint with light. 2 on the left of the bride paint with light but she is blurred due to the slow shutter speed. other than telling her to not move a muscle can you give me ideas. i have 2xPW's with 430ex11's Mar 26 13 01:29 pm Link Sorry, read that twice and still don't know what you're trying to accomplish. Can you provide an example? Mar 26 13 01:32 pm Link yeah... if i knew how to post a picture to this post .. blooming thing! why cant they put a tab to add an image! Mar 26 13 01:33 pm Link unless it's something in your portfolio i believe you have to host the image yourself and then you can link to it (or embed it). Henley Photographic wrote: Mar 26 13 01:39 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: [img] imagelink [img/] The link (photo) has to be on the internet not your computer.... Mar 26 13 01:39 pm Link [img] https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/32123144 [img/] Mar 26 13 01:41 pm Link well theres the link to the picture. it still didnt appear on the forum though :-( but you see what i`d like to copy.... but i would prefer to have the people painting sharp and not blurred... my thought was a slowish shutter speed to capture the light painting and then to rear curtain sync to light up the subjects after,.. but i dont think that would work ? Mar 26 13 01:44 pm Link If you want to do anything that requires dragging the shutter with out blur you have to be sure that the ambiant light is not on e subject. Either flag banquet room lights from the brides face, or something. If you are having the bride light paint a heart or something you could stop down a bit and turn up the power on your flash to cut the room ambiant. Mar 26 13 01:45 pm Link oye, i surrender trying to post that image. click the link above Mar 26 13 01:46 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: In this example the sparklers are lighting the light painters. If they did the painting with flashlights rather than sparklers and you tell them to be careful not to get light on each other you will have less blurring Mar 26 13 01:47 pm Link Of course the blurring is part of the charm Mar 26 13 01:48 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote:
Mar 26 13 01:48 pm Link Camera on a tripod. Composite two images. One with the bride groom illuminated with flash. Second with other subjects illuminated by sparklers. Mar 26 13 01:51 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: slow shutter speed only works if you have flash illuminating your subjects and freezing their motion. if you are dragging the shutter to bring up the ambient, that ambient better be very still. Mar 26 13 01:52 pm Link how did you do that cheeezey ? Mar 26 13 01:54 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: You had [img/] rare than [/img] Mar 26 13 01:59 pm Link that image seems to be to very flat lit, i think it was taken with on camera flash i guess if i used to flash guns. 1 zoomed into the bg and the other as wide as possible but on a lower power that would light it nicely/ or do you think with the sparklers i wouldnt need the wide flash, and could use it more for the halo effect behind the B&G i need to get out there and play really but the weather is so bad i dont want to freeze and get wet! ;-) Mar 26 13 02:00 pm Link You'll have to do it somewhere very dark or the ambient light will show the blur of the people moving. The sparklers should be bright enough that you could stop down quite a bit. That would lessen the effect of the sparklers on the people holding them. The ideal way to do that would be to use lights that don't reflect back on the person holding them. There's all sorts of small, blinky LED type lights that would be better for this than sparklers. Mar 26 13 02:02 pm Link This is something that is best learned by tinkering. So getting "out there" is advised. Lighting the background is not advised. Mar 26 13 02:02 pm Link -Ira wrote: i did think about doing it in 2 images and with a little bit of PS i could easily patch them together. Mar 26 13 02:02 pm Link Joseph William wrote: more important you linked to the .jpg and not the page. [img] tags need an image. Mar 26 13 02:05 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: I would vote against this methodology Mar 26 13 02:07 pm Link Keith Allen Phillips wrote: I do feel that the bits shooting off the sparklers make the image look better then it would if was shot with flash lights though ? Mar 26 13 02:09 pm Link Mar 26 13 02:10 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: The light from the sparklers hitting the people holding them WILL cause blur though. While I agree that it looks good there are a million other options that would make the photo easier and wouldn't require any photoshop trickery. Personally I'd look for some sort of blinking LED heart shaped lights. They'd even be easy to make. That way the writing wouldn't just spell love, the letters would be made out of hearts... how sweet Mar 26 13 02:21 pm Link misunderstood the goal. you want a photo of a sharp model holding a blurry sparkler? Mar 26 13 02:33 pm Link SayCheeZ! wrote: How? Mar 26 13 02:42 pm Link -Ira wrote: ^^ that. Mar 26 13 02:43 pm Link Herman Surkis wrote: anyone can post images in forums. I think you are confusing this with the restrictions on the use of BBCODE in basic account profiles. Mar 26 13 03:17 pm Link dave phoenix wrote: kinda/.. i want a faster shutter speed to reduce the blur of people holding sparklers and also have no blur for the b&g .. i guess they are easy though as they are in a brace position and can keep still for a 60th or so Mar 26 13 03:18 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: grab a bag of sparklers at the dollar store and get your kids to practice. I think 1/60 works but theres a limit beyond which you start to freeze motion and cease to get the painting effect. it will cost you a dollah to figure it out and your kids will be....really disappointed that you made them play with sparklers Mar 26 13 03:55 pm Link Cheer AVD... the only problem is my boy is only 6months and would probably try and eat it ;-) but your right... i need to get out and practice! Mar 26 13 04:12 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: it will be good training for him "the burnt child fears the sparkler" Mar 26 13 04:13 pm Link OK so I did a google image search this is writing with a light that does not hit the person doing the writing model light with off camera flash http://www.iheartfaces.com/2012/10/phot … -painting/ http://adventuresofbritt.wordpress.com/page/9/ Light writing with no flash. light from the writing source (probably flashlight) bouncing back to almost light the figures, or room ambient is doing it http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanntran/5267351857/ http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2011 … -painting/ this is light painting where the light is shown onto the subject rather than at the camera. http://delriophotographyblog.tumblr.com … paintbrush point being that if you want to write with light but you want to have all the subjects not be blurry you need to be sure that the light source you are writhing with does not laminate the writers. I how ever like the effect of bluryness caused Mar 26 13 04:29 pm Link AVD AlphaDuctions wrote: Henley Photographic wrote: How very dare you ;-) the one good thing about the UK is we don't have the euro, still the good old £ Mar 27 13 01:02 am Link Henley Photographic wrote: AVD AlphaDuctions wrote: Henley Photographic wrote: How very dare you ;-) the one good thing about the UK is we don't have the euro, still the good old £ if you cant buy sparklers then your problem is solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mar 27 13 09:15 am Link thought i would throw my penny in on how to do this with no photoshop nonsense. use rear sync flash with your ambient light. ie figure out your settings to get the ambient sparklers or leds or whatever, your flash will fire at the end of the exposure and freeze the action so you can get the couple in focus and still. they can move all they like during the ambient part of the exposure but the flash will freeze them nice and crispy sharp... is that what you're after? here's an example with the first 2 shots http://jonescophotography.blogspot.co.u … -live.html Mar 27 13 04:12 pm Link Henley Photographic wrote: Illuminate bride and groom with a DIM tungsten light set low on the ground for the bridal dress, and then a second tungsten light for the bride and grooms faces (use a deep parabolic dish with a grid for this to get the distance you need. Mar 27 13 04:32 pm Link Joseph William wrote: Hey, thanks for the links. Very helpful! Mar 27 13 04:49 pm Link |
