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:
and speaking of weapons, perhaps this qualifies as a \"trick shot\" too, no?
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 front page in the paper\" trick:
hm, then there\'s how to put Nasa\'s photography unit out of commission and take your own photos from orbit (hooray for career fair freebie gifts!)
Here\'s a pair of shots I did years ago when first acquiring the 580ex and playing with the stroboscopic feature:
Shark! Get out of the pool!
This was done by rotating the camera off-level with the horizon and zooming the lens during the exposure:
Going through a time warp:
Also done rotating the camera. Long(ish) exposure.
How to hide in the Mesopotamian gallery of the Louvre:
and speaking of the Louvre, this is what the Mona Lisa sees day in and day out:
Here\'s some \"Pied Piper mesmerizes the cows\" tricks
First with French cows:
and again with Irish cows:
oh, here\'s a little camel toe for good measure
Then there\'s some fire tricks.
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.
This is the \"flag accidentally (err, I totally planned this!) gets in the way and creates a dreamy effect\" trick:
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:
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:
and speaking of weapons, perhaps this qualifies as a \"trick shot\" too, no?
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 front page in the paper\" trick
hm, then there\'s how to put Nasa\'s photography unit out of commission and take your own photos from orbit (hooray for career fair freebie gifts!)
Here\'s a pair of shots I did years ago when first acquiring the 580ex and playing with the stroboscopic feature:
Shark! Get out of the pool!
This was done by rotating the camera off-level with the horizon and zooming the lens during the exposure:
Going through a time warp:
Also done rotating the camera. Long(ish) exposure.
How to hide in the Mesopotamian gallery of the Louvre:
and speaking of the Louvre, this is what the Mona Lisa sees day in and day out:
Here\'s some \"Pied Piper mesmerizes the cows\" tricks
First with French cows:
and again with Irish cows:
oh, here\'s a little camel toe for good measure
Then there\'s some fire tricks.
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.
This is the \"flag accidentally (err, I totally planned this!) gets in the way and creates a dreamy effect\" trick:
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:
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:
and speaking of weapons, perhaps this qualifies as a \"trick shot\" too, no?
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 front page in the paper\" trick
hm, then there\'s how to put Nasa\'s photography unit out of commission and take your own photos from orbit (hooray for career fair freebie gifts!)
Here\'s a pair of shots I did years ago when first acquiring the 580ex and playing with the stroboscopic feature:
Shark! Get out of the pool!
This was done by rotating the camera off-level with the horizon and zooming the lens during the exposure:
Going through a time warp:
Also done rotating the camera. Long(ish) exposure.
How to hide in the Mesopotamian gallery of the Louvre:
and speaking of the Louvre, this is what the Mona Lisa sees day in and day out:
Here\'s some \"Pied Piper mesmerizes the cows\" tricks
First with French cows:
and again with Irish cows:
oh, here\'s a little camel toe for good measure
Then there\'s some fire tricks.
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.
This is the \"flag accidentally (err, I totally planned this!) gets in the way and creates a dreamy effect\" trick:
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:
Good times!
Nov 21, 2008 at 03:37 PM
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