Showing posts with label shutter speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shutter speed. Show all posts

Friday, July 9, 2010

Big Ball in the Sky!

Big Ball

When you are photographing using long shutter speeds, you can do things that you normally try to avoid doing in order to get some interesting effects. Usually, you try to keep the camera nice and still on the tripod so that you don't get a blurring image. However, if you are deliberate with your camera movements or adjustments, then you can get effects like the one above. This was taken by zooming my lens while the shutter was open. This caused the streaks streaming into the building as well as changing the apparent depth between the building and the fireworks. In this case it made the fireworks appear as a big ball and as though the fireworks were launched from in front of the building rather than from behind it.

Breaking the "rules" of photography can result in interesting images so long as you understand what you are changing and are careful with how you make those changes.


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Friday, June 5, 2009

Birthday Boy


The New 9-year Old

A portrait of my son celebrating his birthday at the restaurant. I used my flash, but it was mounted to the camera. However, I lowered the power so that it wouldn't look like a flash photo, and used slow/rear curtain synch with a slower shutter speed to get some of the background to burn it. This allows you to set a slower shutter speed on the camera than normal, thus allowing some of the light from the background to register on the sensor/film. Otherwise, the background will be a black void with no detail and the photograph will "look" like a flash photograph. The exposure was 1/25 at f/5.3. My son is relatively sharp at this slow speed for a couple of reasons. One is that I used a stabilized lens which lets me handhold the camera at slower shutter speeds. Two is that he is primarily being let by the flash who's durations is much quicker than the shutter.

It looks like it will be a good weekend, and we have some plans that should make for a good photo outing.

Keep shooting.




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