In the toy shop this morning with James I saw something 'I' liked and thought would be good to photograph.
A small toy helicopter I indented to show rotor blur. Using flash of course to give a zip of life.
During initial setup I noticed I could not really get the rotors blurred so it seemed on the LCD screen. I had to use LCD screen of camera now my personal laptop failed.
No.1 below shows initial setup with undiffused flash (I expected to remove shadows using diffusion at a later stage) experimentation at this stage was with rotor blur and shutter speed. I went down and down in speed still stuck rotor!! - Then I thought about it! Flash occurs over a tiny period of time freezing the rotor and the remaining exposure time would record the blur but nowhere as strong as the initial burst of flash light.
I had to use a no-flash setup to obtain the desired picture. Exposure over approx 1/5 I caught it. (No.2)
Using diffused flash decided to capture MY new toy without moving rotors (No.3)
I'll post No.2 in my gallery.
All good fun .
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