Post DSS#43 - Revolving Door Question

BinaryFx

When I was shooting for #43, I tried my hand at a revolving door. I did not wish to have a boring static revolving door - I wanted to capture blurred motion of the door, suggesting lots of movement.

I am a DSLR newb, I put the camera on shutter priority and tried low speeds that I can no longer remember, sorry! Results did not meet my minds eye...hardly any blur.

What shutter speed would you suggest to blur a slow moving object such as a revolving door?

And while on shutter speed, what is a good slow setting to give that nice soft look to waterfalls?

I use an Oly-E520...

Thanks!


Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

MarkR

You might want to post this in the Techniques forum as well. I am a DSLR Newbie going on three years now. I swear my camera grows new buttons every day.

I imagine that your problem is that most revolving doors just aren't going to spin very fast. I'm guessing 1+ second exposure to get good blur. Yes, this means a tripod.

Another option might be to use a long (handheld) exposure with a flash to freeze part of the motion. Ideally you would use trailing shutter curtain sync flash to do this. (That way the blur will be in the right direction.) This might be especially cool if you can catch someone coming out of the revolving door with the flash.

Just some thoughts.

BinaryFx

Thanks MarkR, I was likely seriously underestimating how slow I should shoot, not to mention trying to do this without a tripod! I will keep your tips in mind, although it will likely take me a while to get around to playing with flash!

I was not sure where to post, so thank you for the tip on the technique forum (a mod should perhaps move this post if it is better there).


Cheers!

Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

DeeCajun

I use 1.6 shutter speed on moving water to give it that milky look.

There is an excellent tutorial here

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> http://learnmyshot.com/ on shooting moving water.

Good luck!

BinaryFx wrote:

When I was shooting for #43, I tried my hand at a revolving door. I did not wish to have a boring static revolving door - I wanted to capture blurred motion of the door, suggesting lots of movement.

I am a DSLR newb, I put the camera on shutter priority and tried low speeds that I can no longer remember, sorry! Results did not meet my minds eye...hardly any blur.

What shutter speed would you suggest to blur a slow moving object such as a revolving door?

And while on shutter speed, what is a good slow setting to give that nice soft look to waterfalls?

I use an Oly-E520...

Thanks!


Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

richtersl

BinaryFx wrote:

What shutter speed would you suggest to blur a slow moving object such as a revolving door?

You can get blur in a moving object by using a shutter speed of 1/15. But how much blur you'll get at that speed or any other speed depends on how fast the object is moving.