Mini Maglite?

RebelChick · May 15, 2008

Ok So i have a mini maglite, and would LOVE to see what i can do with it for effect. Ive seen it used before , but am trying to see if there is any suggested settings i should use. Id be shooting in Manual on an XTI with kit lens. the room would be completely dark except for the maglight on mu subject.

rmh159 · May 15, 2008

I've heard of a technique where if the room is dark enough and you're wearing all black you can move the light around to get an abstract-ish kind of shot. Not sure if that's what you're going for. I've never tried it though so I can't really provide more info than that idea.

usayit · May 15, 2008

There's a whole lot of fun with long shutter speeds and a mag light. A good example video of what the technique can yield is in the end of phaseone's digital back presentation.

http://www.phaseone.com/Content/p1digitalbacks/Pplusseries/Introduction.aspx

Long exposure... paint with light... followed up with a flash (2nd curtain)

royalWITHcheese2 · May 15, 2008

usayit said:
There's a whole lot of fun with long shutter speeds and a mag light. A good example video of what the technique can yield is in the end of phaseone's digital back presentation.

http://www.phaseone.com/Content/p1digitalbacks/Pplusseries/Introduction.aspx

Long exposure... paint with light... followed up with a flash (2nd curtain)

The picture at the end of that video was sweet, I can't wait to try that.

Rachelsne · May 15, 2008

Wow thats so much better than my attempt LOL Ilove how you can see her clearly too

RebelChick · May 15, 2008

although that picture was sweet. I was talking more of spotlighting with only a mini mag...

Rogan · May 15, 2008

i was just trying what has been done in the picture and all the picture i took trying shutter speeds of 3 seconds to 15 seconds and all apertures came out almost bright white all over the image

usayit · May 15, 2008

RebelChick said:
although that picture was sweet. I was talking more of spotlighting with only a mini mag...

The process is the same.... you don't have to have the flash at the end of the exposure.

usayit · May 15, 2008

Rogan said:
i was just trying what has been done in the picture and all the picture i took trying shutter speeds of 3 seconds to 15 seconds and all apertures came out almost bright white all over the image

More information will be needed to figure out what went wrong. Playing with shutter speeds and apertures isn't the whole story... you still need an appropriate exposure. If you see all white, my guess is that your are way over exposing.

usayit · May 15, 2008

Rachelsne said:
Wow thats so much better than my attempt LOL Ilove how you can see her clearly too

Long shutter captures the light dragging and a little of the model's motion blur. It is the flash at the end of the exposure that captures the model's final position clearly.

yes... there's a lot of fun with slow exposures and handheld lights. You can literally "paint" in the areas to be exposed. This is one way to tell the story of motion...

Rogan · May 15, 2008

figured it out

had my ISO too high

SBlanca · May 15, 2008

i thought this is what was trying to be achieve.....got lost with the video thing haha

but sounds interesting, this has been on my to-do list for a long time