OK, first, my apologies for those who are opposed to these types of threads. Recently, someone posted a long exposure halloween shot that was quite clever and unique. So along those lines, show us your "trick" photography, what equipment you used, and how you acheived your results. I guess "trick" is how you define it, and for me, it's something unconventional, beyond just standard bokeh, and sharpness is NOT a requisite; in otherwords, something beyond just shooting what you see that has a certain uniqueness you don't see everyday. This is intended to be somewhat open-ended, but no PostProcessing (ie. photoshop) please.
Canon D60 + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
It was a 20-second exposure and my friend was out of the frame for the first 10 seconds, after which I asked her to quickly move in and stand still for the remainder of the exposure. That's all. Fairly common trick, and no post-processing!
Alright, going through my collection, here's some trick shots:
To start us off, this was shot at the Grand Canyon parking lot. No Photoshop whatsoever except for a smidge of cropping and flipping the shot horizontally since he wrote backwards relative to the camera. He used my blue keychain light and happened to have lightning strike while skywriting.
This is the classic "sling your camera over your shoulder, have it accidentally fire off a long exposure shot behind you while hiking, then drag the vibrance and saturation sliders way over to the right" trick:
This I did with another one of my keychain lights, the red one. Hang the light from a string in a doorway. Place the camera at the bottom of the doorway for a long exposure. Swing the light and let it get into a rhythmic pattern, open shutter and see what ya get:
Here's a similar idea. We used a bedsheet as a backdrop, used the same blue light as used in the Grand Canyon shot above, and swung the keychain around in a dark room while popping a flash at the end:
Long exposure at a martial arts competition of some guys doing a cool UV weapons demonstration under blacklights, handheld at 1/4 sec (with IS though) for some extra mushy goodness:
I call this the "How to get your camera muddy and need it be send in for repairs even though you had it wrapped in plastic, but at least you get a killer shot out of it and made front page in the paper" trick:
This was done with a black background, strobe from the left, reflector on the right, camera on tripod precomposed, lighting the match in a clamp with one hand and firing the camera with a remote trigger in another hand, and lots and lots of attempts to get the timing right, take into account the air currents in the room and know which direction the smoke will go, etc.
and last but not least, (what a ginormous set, eh?) here's the "strobe a 1D at 1/16000, tape the TTL pins on the hot-shoe and create the image with the magenta look that is produced in this situation" trick:
Dragging the shutter and moving the camera during landscape exposures. A few from this series have actually made it to gallery showings. It is easier to sell as "art" than your more standard landscape print:
ChrisDM wrote:
Dragging the shutter and moving the camera during landscape exposures. A few from this series have actually made it to gallery showings. It is easier to sell as "art" than your more standard landscape print:
Chris Miller
www.imagineimagery.com
Chris: when you say "dragging the shutter", are you just saying keep the shutter open? And how much and in what sort of motion are you moving the camera? Thanks.
