p.1 #1 · Timing is Everything - Civil War re-enactment
I took a few photos at a US Civil War re-enactment at Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill, TN earlier today and got lucky with timing a canon firing. This is actually harder than it looks - the flames only last a hundredth of a second or so.
p.1 #3 · Timing is Everything - Civil War re-enactment
acoll123 wrote:
This is actually harder than it looks - the flames only last a hundredth of a second or so.
Probably a silly question, but if the flames are only out for that long, wouldn't a longer shutter speed make it easier to get the timing (more) right? Drop you ISO to 100 and get a shutter of 100 (rather than 1250), Surely that increases you chances a fair bit. Your soldiers are hardly running around, so 1/100th should be plenty. I guess your long lens being handheld at that speed becomes an issue for camera shake? But I just noticed that you're only at 200mm here, with IS, so that shouldn't be an issue at all. Just thinking out loud here.
I shoot a reasonable number of weddings per season and almost every wedding I get one or two frames where I'm catching someone else's flash overexposing my shot. When even a slow flash duration is in the hundreths of a second (and fast ones are in the 10s of thousands), maybe I'm just (un)lucky in catching them in my shots...hehe
p.1 #4 · Timing is Everything - Civil War re-enactment
Nice Catch!
Inga wrote:
Probably a silly question, but if the flames are only out for that long, wouldn't a longer shutter speed make it easier to get the timing (more) right? Drop you ISO to 100 and get a shutter of 100 (rather than 1250), Surely that increases you chances a fair bit.
Not a silly question, but the soldiers aren't standing still. The man with the taper is in motion lighting the charge and everyone moves in reaction to the blast. Meanwhile the Canon itself rocks slightly with the charge.
p.1 #5 · Timing is Everything - Civil War re-enactment
unclechuck wrote:
Nice Catch!
Not a silly question, but the soldiers aren't standing still. The man with the taper is in motion lighting the charge and everyone moves in reaction to the blast. Meanwhile the Canon itself rocks slightly with the charge.
That's fair enough. Guess you could split the difference and improve your chances a bit. 1/1250th seems excessively fast IMO, but then I've never shot anything remotely similar to this.
p.1 #7 · Timing is Everything - Civil War re-enactment
Inga wrote:
Probably a silly question, but if the flames are only out for that long, wouldn't a longer shutter speed make it easier to get the timing (more) right? Drop you ISO to 100 and get a shutter of 100 (rather than 1250), Surely that increases you chances a fair bit. Your soldiers are hardly running around, so 1/100th should be plenty. I guess your long lens being handheld at that speed becomes an issue for camera shake? But I just noticed that you're only at 200mm here, with IS, so that shouldn't be an issue at all. Just thinking out loud here.
