Happy New Year
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Happy New Year everyone! Well, this was a much shorter wait than the last one. I hope no-one held their breath for too long...
taken at the New Year party we had at our house the other night. You can't have a good party without fireworks and therefore sparklers. So after the rockets had all been released, I gave out the sparklers and set about taking a few shots. Out of 24 shots, there was only one I had to bin because it was out of focus, the rest were fine, but this was my favourite due to the facial expression.
To do shots like this, you ideally need an external flashgun. In this case, a 580EX. This was mounted on the camera, and the exposure was set manually to 5secs at f14. I was shooting handheld, but there is no blur because during the exposure, there was not enough light to create blur on the main subject, and the sparkler was moving anyway. The flash was set to fire as second curtain sync flash so the main exposure on the subject (the guy with the sparkler) was created by the flash at the very end of the exposure, just before the shutter closed. The flash froze his movement resulting in the sharp image, even with a 5 second handheld exposure.
I hope 2008 is as good or better than 2007 for all of you, and I promise I'll make more of an effort in updating the blog!
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