Weekly Assignment #68: Falling

[Nikolai]

This class is about falling - and capturing the fall. A drop of water. Base jumping. Any separate object in a free fall (no water streams, please).
You can try freeze it with a fast shutter speed, or get the motion blur, be it of the subject (in this case try not to overdo it so the subject is still recognizable) or of the background.
Naturally, only global non-evasive post treatment. Fresh images, as always.
Let's capture that fall!

[Slinky0390]

This is a very interesting topic, and a hard one might I add. I originally thought it would be a piece of cake, but I was sadly mistaken when after about an hour of shooting and adjusting settings and lighting (desk lamp), this was the only usable picture I got. The dart definitely fell faster than my camera could shoot even with my 50mm wide open.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2281048716_b7ea94a6c8_b.jpg

[Nikolai]

This is a very interesting topic, and a hard one might I add. I originally thought it would be a piece of cake, but I was sadly mistaken when after about an hour of shooting and adjusting settings and lighting (desk lamp), this was the only usable picture I got. The dart definitely fell faster than my camera could shoot even with my 50mm wide open.

Thank you, nice entry! :thumb
Desk lamp as the light source? Wow that really hard! :wink

[blalor]

Nice one, Slinky! I wonder if you could pan and follow the dart in flight? :D

[Slinky0390]

Nice one, Slinky! I wonder if you could pan and follow the dart in flight? :D
I could try it, I just need someone to drop the dart; I was holding the shutter button down with one hand and dropping the dart with the other while stretching from the tripod to the desk that the dart board was on. I have work right after school today so I don't think I'll get the chance to try it till tomorrow.

[spb13]

Great assignment! Turned out to challenge me a bit more than I expected, but I did eventually get pretty close to the shot I had in my head.

http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/257289644_JX9qL-L.jpg
exif (http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=257289644&ImageKey=JX9qL)



And while experimenting with the on camera flash I got this interesting shot...

http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/257289553_tWBNG-L.jpg
exif (http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=257289553&ImageKey=tWBNG)

[Nikolai]

Great assignment! Turned out to challenge me a bit more than I expected, but I did eventually get pretty close to the shot I had in my head.

And while experimenting with the on camera flash I got this interesting shot...

Nice entries, Sean, thank you!:thumb

[blalor]

http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/257289644_JX9qL-L.jpg
exif (http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=257289644&ImageKey=JX9qL)

Oh, man, I thought those were used diapers, at first! :puke1 :rofl

Nice shot!

[JayMitch]

This was fun, and more challenging than I expected. After I picked my favorite, I tried a B&W and color version of it. I can't decide, so here are both.

http://JayMitch.smugmug.com/photos/258015373_wm5xH-XL.jpg

and

http://JayMitch.smugmug.com/photos/258015881_NdGXu-XL.jpg



--Jay

[Nikolai]

This was fun, and more challenging than I expected. After I picked my favorite, I tried a B&W and color version of it. I can't decide, so here are both.

--Jay
Jay, this is pretty cool, thank you! :thumb
FWIW, I like the color version better! :rolleyes

[Buildit]

Obviously not the peak of imagination:rolleyes

[Nikolai]

Obviously not the peak of imagination:rolleyes
This one's tough, I give you that!
Very hard to notice that droplet...
This one's more suitable for Liquid Surface, methinks.
"Falling" would be the last thing on my mind when I look at this picture...:dunno
Thank you for trying, though! :thumb

[cjmchch]

http://www.outclassed.co.nz/ewnet/surf-1.jpg

[Nikolai]

surfer
Interesting take on the theme, thank you! :thumb

[Halite]

Great assignment! Turned out to challenge me a bit more than I expected, but I did eventually get pretty close to the shot I had in my head.


And while experimenting with the on camera flash I got this interesting shot...


http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/257289553_tWBNG-L.jpg
exif (http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=257289553&ImageKey=tWBNG)



If you wanted your foam to look like it's falling rather than zooming up, you could set your flash to rear curtain sync.

Your image is a combination of a really quick light from the flash and ambient light in the room for the duration of the shutter opening. That is, your flash probably lasted about 1/1000 of a second while your shutter was open for 1/60th of a second. The flash produced the white part of the image and the ambient light produced the yellowish part. With the default flash setting, the flash synchronizes with the opening of the shutter and then the shutter stays open for the remainder of the exposure time. That's why you got white on top with yellow streak on the bottom--the flash fired when the foam was at its high point.

If you put your camera in rear curtain sync mode, the flash fires at the end of the exposure. So you would get an image of the foam falling through the exposure lit by ambient light with a flash at the end to light the foam at its lowest point in the exposure.

[spb13]

If you wanted your foam to look like it's falling rather than zooming up, you could set your flash to rear curtain sync.

Your image is a combination of a really quick light from the flash and ambient light in the room for the duration of the shutter opening. That is, your flash probably lasted about 1/1000 of a second while your shutter was open for 1/60th of a second. The flash produced the white part of the image and the ambient light produced the yellowish part. With the default flash setting, the flash synchronizes with the opening of the shutter and then the shutter stays open for the remainder of the exposure time. That's why you got white on top with yellow streak on the bottom--the flash fired when the foam was at its high point.

If you put your camera in rear curtain sync mode, the flash fires at the end of the exposure. So you would get an image of the foam falling through the exposure lit by ambient light with a flash at the end to light the foam at its lowest point in the exposure.

Thanks for posting this. I pretty much figured all of that out, but it is a great explanation and I can steal some of this to explain it better to my friends. ;)

[spb13]

Falling fast...

http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/266141049_asMnE-L.jpg
exif (http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=266141049&ImageKey=asMnE)

[Nikolai]

Falling fast...
exif (http://spb13.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=266141049&ImageKey=asMnE)
Thanks, Sean, nice entry! :thumb

[Slinky0390]

Falling fast...



haha, Dueling Dragons! Nice Shot