On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> Thy don't sit still long enough to keep a flash picture from getting
> blurred. ;)
This brought to mind a problem I had recently where I had to take some
photos of a runner. It was an overcast day so I wanted to add a bit of
flash to give some proverbial punch, but not completely overpower
daylight. I thought someone jogging would be 'stopped' adequately by
1/250th of a sec, but it turned out that even at 1/500th I was getting
a little movement. It really needed something like 1/800th to freeze
movement completely.
My camera has a 1/250th sync speed, excluding the 'super' flash mode
which wasn't an option for me. So the only way I could get something
close to what I wanted was to use 1/500th and only have the flash
illuminate the top half of the runner, which looked alright as that
coincided with the horizon. I can't help thinking that I've missed
something and there's some way of getting this to work just fine - any
suggestions?
James
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