Showing and freezing movement with flash photography

Saturday 23 January 2021, 16:32 by Elja Trum | 5,513 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Flash light is incredibly fast, so you can use it to freeze movement in a photo. Even when your shutter speed is so slow that you would normally see movement. By combining flash light with ambient light, you can combine movement with a frozen image.

This can produce some great photos. Gavin Hoey shows you how to do this in the video below.

Gavin uses the flash light from the front to freeze his model, while using a lamp from behind to show the movement in the image.

To get the best images, Gavin chooses second-curtain flash sync. The flash then fires just before the sensor is no longer exposed.

This means you first get the blur, and the sharp (flash) image is then placed over the blur. With first-curtain flash sync, you get the sharp image first, and the movement then sweeps over it.

A subtle difference, but second-curtain flash sync produces better photos.

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