ucddyan
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Hello there. I have this idea for a type of photo I want to take, but I'm not sure if it's possible. I want to try long-ish (1/2 - 3 sec - maybe longer) exposures during daylight to get things being blown by the wind to look blurry, but I also want to actually see the thing I'm trying to photograph. Here's kind of an example of what I mean: lillie park blowing wind 2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! The thing is, I'm wondering how to "freeze" the things I'm taking pictures of as well - would it work if I pop the flash towards the end of the exposure?
I've seen plenty of daytime long exposure shots with waterfalls, but the ideas I sort of have with this would be like a field of flowers blowing in the wind so that they're blurred enough so that you just see colors / or maybe autumn leaves falling, but so that you can see a leaf mid-air but also see the fluid motion of the leaves coming down too.
I don't have the filters right now and it's not the right season (for the flowers at least) but I'm wondering if this type of photo is possible and how to pull it off. Has anyone tried this type of thing and if so could you post some examples and explanation of how you did it?
I've seen plenty of daytime long exposure shots with waterfalls, but the ideas I sort of have with this would be like a field of flowers blowing in the wind so that they're blurred enough so that you just see colors / or maybe autumn leaves falling, but so that you can see a leaf mid-air but also see the fluid motion of the leaves coming down too.
I don't have the filters right now and it's not the right season (for the flowers at least) but I'm wondering if this type of photo is possible and how to pull it off. Has anyone tried this type of thing and if so could you post some examples and explanation of how you did it?