From today’s wedding.
I used a technique for this which I’d read about but never done.
I noticed that duing the newly wedded couple’s first dance, that there were a bunch of other folks taking flash photos.
I used their flashes to light this frame. I turned off my flash, only using it’s infrared beam to focus. Left my shutter on a very slow speed and high ISO, and tried to anticipate the flash of another. With the pre-flashes that point and shoot cameras use, I was able to get a couple of nice shots with the couple outlined this way.
Fun stuff!
Nice Shot! I’ve done this once on purpose and it was an interesting effect. Not as nice as yours, though. How did you meter the scene?
Jeremy – Thanks! I had the camera on full manual, if I recall correctly. Either that or Sensitivity Mode, which on the K20D sets the ISO- in this case ISO1100, and then the camera auto selects the aperture and shutter speed. It was F8 at 1/2 a second, hand-held – Love in-body stabilization. All my lenses are stabilized. I aim to get a set of Pocket Wizards, and have an assistant with a flash on a monopod, to get a similar effect with more certainty. For this, I just kept trying to time the pre-flashes of the P&S’s with my shutter. There’s two flashes going in this frame – one just out of camera left.
Cool! They must have been slow dancers at 1/2 second, haha. I’ve seen some awesome stuff with pocket wizards and tripod mounted flashes. This is one of my favorites that I am going to try some day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knottyy/2119560313/