I have taken photographs, and attempted to upload the same. Unfortunately the intertubes are currently completely clogged, and I can't get my pictures uploaded. This serves me right for only having a cheapskate GBP40/month 1Mbps broadband connection that currently and habitually runs at less than a tenth of the advertised speed.
The pictures, the EXIF, and my commentary will be available for your C&C once uploaded. I hope for tomorrow morning at the crack of sparrow-fart.
Edited 20th January.
Sunday night is absolutely the wrong time to visit a funfair. At least, it is if you want to see activity and bustling crowds; to drink in the all-pervasive smell of candy floss and toffee. It's a good night if you want to be guaranteed no queues for any of the rides.
The first shot was one of many. I tried lots of combinations of flash, shutter and aperture, different flash modes, and this one came out nicely exposed without losing the coloured funfair lights. At least as a 'still life' something wasn't changing. It is, unfortunately, a bit on the boring side.
Eventually three shabab turned up, so I got plenty of pictures of these boyz. Presented are the best two. This sort of photography is something that is so difficult to get right I'm very chuffed to get a good one. None of these are particularly stunning. Perhaps they're more of a demonstration of the principles (excuse for crap pictures).
It's interesting to note that rear synch (where the flash fires at the end of a long exposure) produces a ghostly effect. The camera has already picked up the background before reinforcing the main subject with a blitz of white light.
Slow synch is, I believe, firing the flash at the start of a long exposure. This reduces the ghost effect, but doesn't produce light trails.
Personally I like the trails on the third picture best.
Nikon D70s on tripod
Nikkor 18-200 at 31mm
1/6 sec F/4.8
SB800 flash on hotshoe
Nikon D70s on tripod
Nikkor 18-200 at 48mm
1/6 sec F/4.8
SB800 flash on hotshoe
Slow sync.
Nikon D70s on tripod
Nikkor 18-200 at 34mm
1/4 sec F/6.7
SB800 flash on hotshoe
Rear sync.
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Well done.
ReplyDeleteNice use of your flash and custom functions such as rear sync.
I even had to Google slow sync, yet another nice Nikon feature that Canon doesn't have :-(
Seems like you’ve got "Auto" which is front curtain, "Slow" which is mid shutter and then "Rear", very nice.
1st Shot.
Not bad but compared to the others seems lacking in "something" but sorry not quite sure what.
Perhaps a portrait aspect would have helped and less wide angle ?
2nd Shot.
I think this is the strongest shot, mainly because of the person in the shot, just a shame he's not looking more at the camera.
Be interested in how this would look in portrait go give busier back ground.
3rd Shot.
The red lights are nice, just a shame it wasn't busier and more chaotic.
Cheers,
Richard B.
@Richard: Your comments about how few people there are, and the consquent lack of activity are justified. My excuses are in my commentary on the main blog entry.
ReplyDeleteI did try the second shot close-cropped, but the driver looking to his left drew attention out of the frame (and exposed the fact that he's a bit movement-blurred!) so I invoked Rule Of Thirds. Having a dozen active dodgems in the background wouuld have been nice, but that wasn't going to happen on a Sunday evening in Dubai.
"my bad" ;-) Sorry no comments when I responded.
ReplyDeleteWhy wasn't it crowded ? Dubai hasn't been effected by the possible maybe perhabps global fincial non-crisis !
Well done, as you say these photos are difficult to take but very satisying when you do.
Best to drive camera in M , shuter speed sets ambient and movement, Apperture controls DOF and then use iTTL and the flash will sort the rest and freeze the movement.
The Nikon, Auto, Slow and Rear is nice.
Cheers,
Richard B.