How do you do this type of effect? picture

dylanlolwut · 26-06-2011 1:44am #1

I was looking through an album on facebook and saw one of these photos. How would do that with all the light and have everyone in the picture not blurred? i tried doing it with av mode for 2 seconds for the shutter to be open but the whole picture is blurry. anyone know?

DotOrg · 26-06-2011 2:08am

it's called slow sync flash

you had the right idea, it's a slow shutter speed to get the light trails, but then you fire your flash to freeze parts of the picture. It takes lots of practice to get god effects and consistent good exposures.

i had a google and found this helpful tutorial:
http://www.rikkihibbert.co.za/2010/08/16/how-to-use-your-flash-slow-sync-flash-tutorial/

5uspect · 26-06-2011 9:21am

In your camera you may be able to set the flash to second (or rear) curtain sync also. That way light trails trail naturally from moving objects. Typically the flash fires at the start of the exposure so the light trail will move forward and not backwards.

Of course you lose a lot of flash power with second curtain sync.

ED E · 26-06-2011 11:23am

Unfortunately all the club photographers are doing this recently, gets very tiring.

dylanlolwut · 07-08-2011 9:19pm

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Unfortunately all the club photographers are doing this recently, gets very tiring.

well i can see why they would take advantage to this, with all the lights and what not

af_thefragile · 08-08-2011 3:19am

Rear curtain sync (or Second curtain sync in most Canon DSLRs) should do it with a long exposure. The long exposure first captures all the moving light sources (glowsticks, cell phones, lights etc.) and then the flash at the end of the exposure captures all the people.

It can look a bit tiring with club photography but you can get very creative once you start painting with light and stuff...

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