I have taken photographs of snowboarding during the day and at night. Obviously it is much easier to produce a clear and correctly exposed image during the day, however one of the obstacles I have to overcome at the moment are short days.
My main resource of snowsports action is my local dry slope. The slope is lit at night but this can cause shadows in my photography preventing me to depict certain detail. I am hoping to develop my use of fill flash techniques to help me overcome this problem.
As a brief example of what fill flash achieves I have published images below.
The first is taken with no flash.
The second with the flash setting as normal, meaning that the flash should be the main source of light. This image simulates some of the problems that can occur in real time photography. The main subject of the image is reflecting too much light and in contrast with its surrounding is far too bright and unnatural.
The third image was taken with a flash but i reduced its compensation by 0.7. You can see that it has highlighted areas previously to dark to see detail in and the main subject is still in tone with the surrounding.
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ReplyDeleteYou need to get a daylight shoot sorted and use fill in flash then to freeze the movement.
Look at all the quirky angles in your magazines which will give ideas.
Here you have met,1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
and you have evidenced our talk which hits 2.1,2.4,2.6,
and 2.2 when you do the reshoot.
steve
Carl, this is an area I need to investigate in my movement photography at night. Useful to see someone else is investigating this and we can sound of ideas between us.
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