 | November 24, 2011 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines |   | |  | How To combine multiple shots into a seamless whole In 2009, Dario Acosta, a New York photographer of opera singers, wanted to diversify his portfolio with a series of hard-edged portraits, which he titled "3 A.M. Moto." Its subjects: bad-news bikers in sinister, after-dark settings. "It was fun, but I couldn't work at night and get the sharpness I wanted," he says. "I had to shoot the models and backgrounds separately and combine them in Adobe Photoshop." READ MORE >> |
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A. Dragging the shutter is a flash exposure strategy in which a photographer manually sets a relatively slow shutter speed (usually 1/8 to 1/30 sec, depending on the scene), this technique produces more background detail in a scene than typical automatic flash exposures record. Dragging the shutter is often employed by event photographers in dimly-lit indoor settings with relatively stationary subjects, and it relies on the instantaneous flash burst to freeze a subject sharply. (Without the flash, any subject or camera movement would produce objectionable blur at these shutter speeds.) With a TTL- dedicated flash system, the camera's meter will automatically produce the correct exposure for the flash-lit foreground subject. To determine what shutter speed to set for the background, meter it and set the shutter about about a stop faster. With brightly lit backgrounds or animated subjects, watch out for ghosting. |
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