Flash photography tip: Using multiple flashes in one photo
Saturday 12 October 2024, 16:08 by Elja Trum | 2,623 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Most speedlights also have a mode you probably will not use very often in practice: the multi mode. It allows you to flash several times while taking a single photo.
You can set the number of flashes and the number of times per second the flash should fire, indicated in Hertz.
The photo above was taken by flashing four times during a shutter speed of four seconds, with one flash every second. Sigrid moved her hands to the next position after each flash.
A shutter speed of four seconds obviously required a dark room. I also put the camera on a tripod to prevent movement.
In this mode, you are naturally asking a lot of the flash. As a result, you do not have the full power of your flash available. The higher the number of Hertz you use, the less power you will have per photo.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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