Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The only limits are our imagination. Have your ambient setting long enough to record a blur and fire the flash so the stick is in the middle of the blur or.... With snoots, you could have the blur one colour and the flash exposure another colour or neutral or spotted or.... Use a double exposure for exact placement or overlapping contrasting poses or..... The hard part about photographic exposure is deciding want you want in a myriad of possibilities. After you decide exactly what you want the rest is easy. John Collier > From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com> > > On 1/13/02 at 7:09 AM, alanghans@komoto.naches.wednet.edu (Aram Langhans) > thoughtfully wrote: > >> Since you don't have rear curtain sync, you might try catching him on the >> upswing rather than on the down swing. That way the flash will freeze the >> drumstick lower and the blur will be above. It might look like the swing is >> coming from above. > > Clever! Neat idea. > > I'll post what I discover (taking lots of notes, of course) > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html