Another attempt at high Speed.... and this time sober. Oh, the irony!

[Stradawhovious]

Here is another shot taken with a long shutter speed, and a SB-600 speedlight as the only light source...... And this time I was sober. Kind of ironic seeing the subject matter (which I'm drinking right now) Shutter set to Bulb, and open and closed with a remote. speedlight set to 1/16, and triggered by hand, aperature at F/11, ISO 100. C&C appreciated!

 

[dylanstraub]

I like it. How long did you leave the shutter open? Did you do any post processing?

 

[Stradawhovious]

Shutter was open 6.5 seconds, but that time doesn't mean much since the only light source was the speedlight. No post processing to speak of.... tweaked the contrast a tiny bit and a little bit of cropping but that's all.

Not really big on the PP yet...... not sure what I'm doing. I figure I will learn how to take them before I learn how to fix them.

 

[reznap]

Hey, I think it's awesome...

Just needs some adjusting.. the highlights are very subdued. I'd brighten up the light tones and clean up some of the weird artifacts in the gradient in the background (probably mask it off).

Here's a quick dirty edit...

 

[Snakeguy101]

I think Paul nailed the edit. Excellent shot and perfect timing. I really dig this shot.

 

[Stradawhovious]

Hey, I think it's awesome...

Just needs some adjusting.. the highlights are very subdued. I'd brighten up the light tones and clean up some of the weird artifacts in the gradient in the background (probably mask it off).

Here's a quick dirty edit...

Thanks!!

Rockstar edit. :thumbup: I really have to learn how to do that.

 

[reznap]

I really have to learn how to do that.

Practice a lot but to make things easier, learn from others. What I did here was a levels adjustment, masked for background and did a Gaussian blur and added a subtle vignette. Smart sharpen at 15% for 0.3 pixels and saved.

 

[Stradawhovious]

I really have to learn how to do that.

Practice a lot but to make things easier, learn from others. What I did here was a levels adjustment, masked for background and did a Gaussian blur and added a subtle vignette. Smart sharpen at 15% for 0.3 pixels and saved.

Thanks for the tutorial! I will be trying this on my lunch break.

I just bought a copy of Adobe Elements 9, and will be taking a class on the basics of it in early Jan. Until then, I'm just going to fumble around with it and see what all the shiney buttons do.

 

[Bram]

Okay so wait a second here. The room was dark? You had it set to bulb and opened the the shutter, dropped the olive? Then when it hit you used your sb600 manually to freeze the frame?

 

[Stradawhovious]

Okay so wait a second here. The room was dark? You had it set to bulb and opened the the shutter, dropped the olive? Then when it hit you used your sb600 manually to freeze the frame?

Yep. That's pretty much exactly how it happened.

 

[Bram]

Dang I never thought long shutter speeds would work with this. I'm going to have to try this at home.
So the requirments:
- Dark room
- Tripod, camera on bulb
- remote
- external flash unit

process:
- dark room
- set up camera all that jazz
- open shutter
- drop object in substance
- freeze with strobe
- hit shutter again

Did I miss anything?

 

[Stradawhovious]

Did I miss anything?

The long string of four letter words when you bang your shin on something, or drop the remote in the vodka.

Here is a detailed, profesionally rendered charcoal drawing of the setup I used so you can see just how high tech the whole process is.

Instead of firing the flash at the front of the subject...... it ended up really washing out the background and blowing out parts of the glass) I fired it through the top of the box.

Then, in order; shutter, olive, splash, flash, shutter.

If you get the timing and exposure right, you get the image. It's that brutally simple.

 

[Bram]

Okay! For the flash unit, did you just point it straight down into the box and that lit up the entire inside of it?

 

[Stradawhovious]

Okay! For the flash unit, did you just point it straight down into the box and that lit up the entire inside of it?

Yep. That bright white foamboard really does a good job of moving light around. The flash was fired straight down, behind the glass.

 

[Bram]

Alright cool so the only thing I guess is to aquire a white foamboard box, and some black construction paper.