So on Saturday evening, I met up with Al and Colin to watch Al in action as he was directing Colin for an upcoming photo competition held by Fuji.
Unlike still-life, this was action photography, when you add movement, there are a lot of variables that come into play, the margin of error is quite high, so you can say Al was attempting some high level stuff!
Cause it was Al's photo shoot, I didn't want to intervene and so instead of having a second remote trigger, I tried to capture Colin's jump via spamming (aka non purpose shooting? lol) the continuous shooting mode. To be honest, even at 10 FPS, a split second of flash is VERY HARD TO CAPTURE. Out of 139 spam shots, I only had 3 snaps where my camera caught the flash, out of which 2 captured the flashes as they died out, and only one had it when all the lights were on (seen below). The other 136 photos were simply pitch black...some how this made me learn to appreciate the convenience a cheap remote trigger is capable of providing.
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| Airborne. No Remote Trigger aka "Lucky Strike" |
After they were done with the shoot, I attached the remote trigger to my camera and decided to fool around a bit.
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| Director's Cut |
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| Lift Off |
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| The Moon Landing |
Apart from the photoshoot, I did spend some time to meddle around with light painting since I had purchased 2 small LED lights.
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| Beatrice the Brontosaurus grabs a snack |
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| The Lonely Rider |
Overall it was a fun experience and though Al wasn't satisfied with the photos, I thought they looked great. Having had my hand at video editing RC cars, creating an action shot in your head is a lot easier than making it in real life (expectations vs reality), though I do not know the expectation Al has in his mind, I thought the pictures he captured that evening were really good, especially given the little amount of experience and time we had at that void deck. I think he's done three separate shoots in total and I'm looking forward to seeing the final results.
Al had a group shot with the flash turned off, but some how I'm really digging the industrial feel of having the flash turned on even though they weren't exactly facing us.
Overall it was a fun evening, thanks Alron for the Pizza Dinner and PNL after. =)
2 comments:
nice light paintings!
regarding the shoot, I was too ambitious to create the effect I wanted and the margin of error was too low especially I'm still very inexperienced with OCF.
Thanks! I think I need to progress beyond stick figures and dinosaurs, still pondering what's next.
I thought it was good but I guess the effect you wanted can differ from the outcome, and while I think experience plays a part, in general, action photography can be rather tricky so don't be too hard on urself.
Was thinking next time instead of tossing the powder by hand, perhaps you could get a small disposable cup and fill it with powder, then use it to throw the powder in the air from off the camera frame, might just work.
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