Captured at 1/125s, 100 ISO. I am surprised you got such excellent focus considering the movement and relatively low shutter speed. I suspect you were maybe panning the camera?
And the shots of the two in flight look so good that one might think they were taken separately and layered. But I suspect that is not the case.
Captured at 1/125s, 100 ISO. I am surprised you got such excellent focus considering the movement and relatively low shutter speed. I suspect you were maybe panning the camera?
And the shots of the two in flight look so good that one might think they were taken separately and layered. But I suspect that is not the case.
Phil
EXIF did not record the 4 Broncolor packs firing at 1/2000. ISO 100 and f/8 should have given away that even at 1 sec exposure the frame would have been perfectly black. I'll dig out the set shot and post it somewhere.
EXIF did not record the 4 Broncolor packs firing at 1/2000. ISO 100 and f/8 should have given away that even at 1 sec exposure the frame would have been perfectly black. I'll dig out the set shot and post it somewhere.
Thanks for your interest.
I wondered about lighting, but do not have sufficient experience or photo knowledge to ask the right question for this kind of shot. But learning this way. Like to see the set shot.
Here's the setup from the same set, a day earlier:
Left to right:
3 Broncolors used later
industrial strength fan
Lois Greenfield (http://www.loisgreenfield.com)
2 Broncolor strobes to bleach the background on the left -- powered by a single pack
Jessica Batten and Katherine Moncure Williams (from Juilliard, I think)
2 more Broncolor strobes to bleach the background on the right -- also one pack
Ladders and stuff
Broncolor beauty dish strobe (the only light used in Hopeful Shechem, but was repositioned to the left), powered by Broncolor of its own
I switched the synch from 1/200 to 1/125 because there was some lag with the RF remote. But that did not matter. The frame was perfectly black without the strobes, even with ambient light and the modeling lights ON -- that's the critical part. So anything registered by the camera was for the flash duration, which was never slower than 1/2000. This is how you get the perfectly frozen motion. This is also the reason why Broncolor and ProFoto are so expensive -- they can go as fast as 1/8000 and freeze a bullet. Not for a regular studio setup!
The set above finally yielded this shot (I still need to process it right):
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Great range in light and shadows, and captured motion.
Phil
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil
Hi Phil,
Thank you for your reply. I can see the puzzlement over the title. It is a shot from the portfolio "Dinah and Shechem": http://alexbraverman.smugmug.com/Photography/Dance/Dinah-and-Shechem/
Thanks again,
Alex
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Captured at 1/125s, 100 ISO. I am surprised you got such excellent focus considering the movement and relatively low shutter speed. I suspect you were maybe panning the camera?
And the shots of the two in flight look so good that one might think they were taken separately and layered. But I suspect that is not the case.
Phil
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil
EXIF did not record the 4 Broncolor packs firing at 1/2000. ISO 100 and f/8 should have given away that even at 1 sec exposure the frame would have been perfectly black. I'll dig out the set shot and post it somewhere.
Thanks for your interest.
Be my guest: Alex Braverman Photography
I wondered about lighting, but do not have sufficient experience or photo knowledge to ask the right question for this kind of shot. But learning this way. Like to see the set shot.
Phil
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil
Left to right:
3 Broncolors used later
industrial strength fan
Lois Greenfield (http://www.loisgreenfield.com)
2 Broncolor strobes to bleach the background on the left -- powered by a single pack
Jessica Batten and Katherine Moncure Williams (from Juilliard, I think)
2 more Broncolor strobes to bleach the background on the right -- also one pack
Ladders and stuff
Broncolor beauty dish strobe (the only light used in Hopeful Shechem, but was repositioned to the left), powered by Broncolor of its own
I switched the synch from 1/200 to 1/125 because there was some lag with the RF remote. But that did not matter. The frame was perfectly black without the strobes, even with ambient light and the modeling lights ON -- that's the critical part. So anything registered by the camera was for the flash duration, which was never slower than 1/2000. This is how you get the perfectly frozen motion. This is also the reason why Broncolor and ProFoto are so expensive -- they can go as fast as 1/8000 and freeze a bullet. Not for a regular studio setup!
The set above finally yielded this shot (I still need to process it right):
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Thank you, Charles. It will be more so when it is B&W and even higher key. Color plays no part in it -- air does!
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