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08/18/2006 03:15:59 PM · #1 |
Ive been to several carnivals in the last year and never been happy with the results.
Two shots I would like to master (both at night):
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photographing my son in a moving ride with lights all over.
I would like to achieve on this - "stop-action" but still get that beautiful saturation / glow from the lights (all over the ride)
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"the ferris wheel shot"
you've seen them - the beautiful time lapse of ferris wheels.
could someone please assist me on reccommended setttings?
I have a canon digiRebel XT a 50mm 1.8 and the kit lens |
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08/20/2006 02:20:43 PM · #2 |
the first shot you are refering too is a higher shutterspeed shot but you are not going to get the glow that you would with the long shutter time. What i would do is take the picture of both, a stop motion shot and one with a longer shutter time. and then layer them in say photoshop. If you get a true stopped-motion without the blur then you lose some of the effect of the lights.
both shots you need a tripod, or some other way to take it w/o moving the camera one bit.
I have taken a ferris wheel shot with a 8 second shutter and it turned out well, it gave almost a full rotation if you take it after it is full and starting the first full rotation. this shot takes some prep time as you have to watch when the car starts to spin after loading and start you shots then so you dont get a stop in it.
I hope this gives you some ideas on how to accomplish |
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08/20/2006 03:21:54 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by bdonch:
the first shot you are referring too is a higher shutter speed shot but you are not going to get the glow that you would with the long shutter time. |
That's not entirely true. If your subject is primarily lit by flash, then you have 'stop action motion' where the flash hits the subject. That means your actual shutter speed can be much longer in order to get the color of the lights, etc.
If the subject is also lit by other lights, then the subject will start to blur, due to the continued "exposure". So this mainly works if the subject is in the dark or receives most of its light from the flash.
This isn't a great example for the OP's case (there are no lights in the picture) ... but you can see here, this image was taken at 1/8th of a second. The roller coaster was moving quite fast. And yet, they were "in the dark" on the left side of the frame. But the further away they got from the camera (the right side of the frame), and the more the ambient light is what was lighting them, the more the "motion blur" can be seen.
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08/20/2006 03:25:25 PM · #4 |
Here's a ferris wheel shot:
Some of the settings that come into play here are:
1) f/22 is what gave me the star effect on the light on the right
2) 1.6 seconds is what gave me the motion blur of the ferris wheel
Amazingly enough, this was taken hand-held. You can see some "jaggies" (camera shake) in the spokes of the ferris wheel, but for a 1.6 second exposure I was absolutely elated at how minimal the camera shake was.
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08/20/2006 03:52:17 PM · #5 |
| I guess I was thinking of a ride with more lights than your first shots,say a carousel. the more I think of this it really depends on the speed and backlighting on the ride. If you take a Rollercoaster for example.....you dont have a lot of the different background "glowing" lights as described initially, If you have the shot you show below you could not get a Photo of a subject riding it, but you get the Motion glow as described. My impression was they wanted to get a ride with a lot of glowing lights, like say a carousel, or a carvinal swings with the Carny lights, where you can get Either the Motion lights, Or a stop motion of the subject, if you extend the shutter for the lights, the blur will take the subject and blur them as well... |
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08/20/2006 04:05:03 PM · #6 |
Yeah, I agree with you, and that's why I said the picture I showed wasn't a good example for the OP's request.
But it does serve to point out that if you can primarily light the subject with the flash (and *not* the background lights), and then you can get motion blur with the background lights while still freezing the subject. All in a single frame.
Basically, I'm trying fuel the imagination as to what is possible. :-) |
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