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Taken at our work Christmas party - was playing around with front and rear sync flash and low shutter speeds.

C&C appreciated

All at ISO100

1 second, F/32


1 second, F/16


1 Second, F/11


1/2 Second, F/8

Wow - very effective! The flame trails in the second shot are amazing, almost 3D. Great job on these dviv!

awesome job you nailed it

Manta wrote:Wow - very effective! The flame trails in the second shot are amazing, almost 3D. Great job on these dviv!

Well done!

The second is definitely my favourite... I enjoyed all of them though.. its so nice to see something different for a change!

I really like the #1...this reminds me I should get back into contact with the firetwirlers that i know and see if I can line up some sort of night shoot.

man, get a load of those fire-balls in the second shot, you got any eyebrows left?

I really like the first image, I like the way the person is frozen in the frame by the flash (?) I think this works better than slightly blurred persons - but I understand how hard this is to achieve.

Taken at our work Christmas party

hmm, i gotta get an invit to the next one, either that or get your social coordinator to talk to mine

Love the detail in the fire balls in the 2nd pic

Isn't rear curtain sync a lot of fun?

Great shots, especially #2. Firetwirling is interesting to shoot as you can get two disticntly different types of shots, the first, like yours with losts of ambient light and then the black shot with mostly only the fire trails. Like this.

Thanks for all the comments everyone!

gstark wrote:Isn't rear curtain sync a lot of fun?

Yes! Although I found front curtain a bit more reliable when the twirlers were moving around and I was trying to get their faces in the shot.

CraigVTR wrote:the black shot with mostly only the fire trails. Like this.

Great shot Craig, Thanks for the link.

biggerry wrote:hmm, i gotta get an invite to the next one, either that or get your social coordinator to talk to mine

Having 2000 staff in Sydney alone helps

aim54x wrote:this reminds me I should get back into contact with the firetwirlers that i know and see if I can line up some sort of night shoot.

Definately! I'm in

dviv wrote:

gstark wrote:Isn't rear curtain sync a lot of fun?

Yes! Although I found front curtain a bit more reliable when the twirlers were moving around and I was trying to get their faces in the shot.

That sounds more like a general issue with regard to actually getting the image, rather than rear vs front curtain sync.

With front curtain sync, you will get interesting effects, such as the light trails leading the item making the trails, rather than following them. To really understand what I'm talking about, wander out to a busy street at night with a camera and a tripod, and shoot longer exposures of the cars moving down the road.

Toggle between front and rear sync, and celebrate the differences.

gstark wrote:That sounds more like a general issue with regard to actually getting the image, rather than rear vs front curtain sync.

With front curtain sync, you will get interesting effects, such as the light trails leading the item making the trails, rather than following them. To really understand what I'm talking about, wander out to a busy street at night with a camera and a tripod, and shoot longer exposures of the cars moving down the road.

Been there, done that

I meant that when the person with the fire is moving around a lot (ie dancing AND twirling fire) it is much easier to time the flash when you hit the shutter, rather than trying to anticipate where they will be once the rear curtain arrives.

Nicely done David!! Love those 3D effects on the 2nd as already commented.

Any chance of the exifs for our education??

dviv wrote:I meant that when the person with the fire is moving around a lot (ie dancing AND twirling fire) it is much easier to time the flash when you hit the shutter, rather than trying to anticipate where they will be once the rear curtain arrives.

Did you try any with camera on bulb and flash on manual control with trigger of the sorts? You could get a combination of rear and front curtain.? By timing the flash and closing the shutter, you could control the relative contribution of each.

dviv wrote:biggerry wrote:hmm, i gotta get an invite to the next one, either that or get your social coordinator to talk to mine

Please also get them to contact my people.

surenj wrote:Any chance of the exifs for our education??

They are a bit of a mixed bag - I've edited the main thread with the exposure values

surenj wrote:Did you try any with camera on bulb and flash on manual control with trigger of the sorts? You could get a combination of rear and front curtain.? By timing the flash and closing the shutter, you could control the relative contribution of each.

No but I like the idea! - might be something to try at the meet Cameron is cooking up

The other issue with these is camera shake - I was not able to use a tripod so these were all handheld and there's no way I'm getting a stable shot at 1 sec handheld

dviv wrote:

gstark wrote:That sounds more like a general issue with regard to actually getting the image, rather than rear vs front curtain sync.

With front curtain sync, you will get interesting effects, such as the light trails leading the item making the trails, rather than following them. To really understand what I'm talking about, wander out to a busy street at night with a camera and a tripod, and shoot longer exposures of the cars moving down the road.

Been there, done that

I meant that when the person with the fire is moving around a lot (ie dancing AND twirling fire) it is much easier to time the flash when you hit the shutter, rather than trying to anticipate where they will be once the rear curtain arrives.

Ahhhh .... I see.

There's a technical term for that.

gstark wrote:There's a technical term for that.

Do Tell!