Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Come to think of it a lot of on camera flashes have a strobeophonic setting. Some of mine have. I've never used them. Maybe now I will. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:48:39 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Snowflakes > > Mark writes re Jeff Moore's comments on his snowflakes: > "The flash duration in effect becomes your shutter speed. > > So you get it. > > You get it like you see it. > > I also learned this from looking at peoples snap shots. As peoples flash go > > off then they don't even know how to turn them off. > > Their snap shots of a snow or rain storm looked better than my 8x10's. > > So I vowed to experiment with flash on stuff falling from the sky shots. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101213_212632.jpg.html > > > - - - - > Many years ago, I picked up one of those cheap strobe lights from a party > store. You know, the kind that used to be popular in discos. It could be > set > to flash up to 10 times a second. I think the price was less than $20. I > don't know what use I intended it for, perhaps to take stop motions of fan > blades or drive my cat into epileptic shock. Anyway I aimed it out the > window and photographed a driving rainstorm with the strobe using a 1 > second > exposure on the camera. Every raindrop was illuminated by a brief flash a > dozen times before passing out of the frame of view. Spectacular! > > I don't know what I did with the photo but I'll try to find it. My son > requisitioned the strobe for a frat party at college and I never saw it > again. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information