11/25/2009

Jeff	Sara
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So if you want to really mess with a crappy camera phone just shoot curved, ridged glass through a cheap plastic magnifying glass.  What I like about this shot is that if I hadn’t told you what it was, you’d have no idea.  It looks to me like something moving really fast.  But I assure it was quite cooperative sitting still for me.	A couple days ago I wrote a post about how I had not yet used the camera to really stop action.  The reason for this is because the camera’s flash turns everything ghostly.  A really bright, brilliant white kind of ghost.  Needless to say, it isn’t flattering.I attempted to play with motion today.  The idea was to photograph my dog play fetch (with me being on the receiving, not throwing, end).  As the fetching dog was getting his act together, I was playing with delayed timer flash.  This flash function says it illuminates both the foreground and background.  I quickly learned that it accomplishes this by firing two flashes a second or two apart – while keeping the shutter open the entire time.  Interesting effect.  I tried this flash on the non-fetching dog, Franconia.  You can see the two flashes because it blurred her tail and ears…both of which moved inbetween flashes. After playing with the flash on Franconia, my camera batteries died.  Sweet.  So no fetch today, but instead some ghostly tail wagging.

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