Lets See Some Motion Blur

[Gdad]

Here is one from yesterday that I liked - the head of the line at Big Thunder Mountain. 2.5 Sec Exposure - Handheld, but braced on the rail.

I have a few more which I will post later - Love to see yours!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I should have done a second curtain flash sync, but didn't think about it until too late.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Motion blur added in post processing to simulate panning. I also spun the wheels for an added touch.

Here's a more extreme form:

 

[MarkBarbieri]

One more:

 

[wdwpluto]

 

[boBQuincy]

It's a fast Corvair but a slow corner and it needed a little "speeding up".

 

[boBQuincy]

This was with 2nd curtain flash, about 1/4 second.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

2nd curtain flash, for those unfamiliar with the term, is having the flash fire at the end of the exposure rather than at the beginning. Normally you want the flash to fire as soon as you press the button. When shooting something moving, you want it to fire at the end.

If you shoot it at the beginning, you capture the object with the flash and then the moving part of the image. That's the opposite of the way that you want the picture to look. The story you want the picture to tell is about how the object got where it is rather than where it went after you shot it.

The term "2nd curtain" derives from the fact that the mechanical shutter used in SLRs and DSLRs is really a pair of curtains. The first drops revealing the image to the film/sensor and the second comes down covering it up again.

When shooting a particularly high shutter speed picture, the second curtain starts moving down before the first curtain has reached the bottom. The image is captured through a rapidly moving opening between the two curtains. That's why most flashes only work up to 1/125 or 1/250 shutter speeds. The flash is nearly instantaneous, so it would only illuminate the strip of the image that is exposed between the two moving curtains when it fires. Flashes with high speed sync modes work by extending the duration of the flash. It's not as bright but it lasts for the entire exposure. It seems counter-intuitive to think that a high speed flash sync relies on a longer duration flash, but that's the way it works.

 

[Michele]

All this curtain talk is way over my head, but just out of curiosity how would you set something like a 2nd curtain flash on a camera? Anyway, here's one I have. It just happened by accident.

 

[Gdad]

Here's a few more of mine...

One More from BTM

DW & DD on the Barnstormer

Tink flying over us last night at Wishes

 

[handicap18]

Here are 2 I took over the summer playing around with motion blur and 2nd curtain synch. I should have used a tripod. Oh well:

 

[PoohJen]

Headless Horseman in the Halloween parade at MK...

Mark, how do you set for 2d curtain flash? I have a 430ex flash for my rebel xt.

 

[tinkspark]

I should have done a second curtain flash sync, but didn't think about it until too late.

Is that rockin rollercoaster?

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

Debbie

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Is that rockin rollercoaster?

Yes.

 

[fitzperry]

Well done on the BTMRR shot! That looks very steady for a 2.5 sec exposure with no tripod--bracing the camera on the railing or not.

When we were in Paris a couple of months ago, I kept trying to take panning shots of the little Smartcars. They look like toys speeding around the streets there. I'm not very good at panning, but I did get a couple that aren't too bad. This is pretty much unedited. Now that I look at it again, maybe I should give the background a little more blur.

This would be more interesting if I'd had a tripod and could have used a longer exposure.

And here's one in the Metro:

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

 

[foto202]

Here is an old shot from last year. I didn't have my external flash with me on the ride. So .... on board flash with the 10-22 which is why there is some heavy shadows. No post process just resized. Nothing fancy.

 

[0bli0]

i love the second curtain shot Bob and the teacup shot foto202! i've got a lot of panning shots of cars at home from Bathurst & Eastern Creek.
here are some disney ones:

1/30 second f/8

California Screamin' launches pretty quick so it took a bit to time properly to pan. fortunately, i got the family pretty well. (it's kinda funny cos the image just before this one shows my DW happily waving with both hands right when it starts moving then she grabbed on for dear life...)

1/60 second 5/5.6

and a non-disney one...

 

[tinkspark]

Yes.

Great Picture. But I don't know if you want to be posting pictures you are not supposed to be taking.