C&C Time Lapse and Night Shot

[CMfromIL]

The first two were taken at my daughters gymnastics practice. I had taken enough 'regular' pictures and thought of trying some long exposure shots. I've not taken these before, so any tips/critiques? The last picture is from my backyard taken at night w/just a flash. It just struck me as 'different'.

 

[889Media]

What does this have to do with time lapse, if you do not mind me asking? :er:

 

[CMfromIL]

I'm new to photography, perhaps I used the wrong term. My apologies. I left the shutter open for about 2 seconds, so I guess I should have said long exposure?

Anyways I was trying to catch the gymnast from the vault to the ground.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[889Media]

Long exposure would be more correctly, yes! Time Lapse is when you shoot many pictures of something - shooting one picture e.g. every one or two seconds, and then use the pictures taken to make a movie. A time lapse movie of a sunset would make it look like the sunset is something that happens very fast. Still looks very good though, and make for some nice effects in a video

One tip to you for what you tried to do; I do not know what camera you are using, but if it support "2nd curtain sync", "slow sync" or something like that. This will let you use your flash, and have it fire at the end of your exposure opposed to at the beginning! This will give you an awesome effect of still seeing the blurry motion ghosting that comes from the motions of the girl, but at the end the flash fires to freeze her motions. This give you the best of both worlds - the motion blur and a girl you can see at the end of the motions