I am very pleased to have won the last technique challenge. Thank you to @swguevin for organizing it and thank you to everyone who voted for my picture. It is my great honor to host the next challenge. Here are the subjects we have covered so far:
1. Low key
2. Motion blur
3. Split toning
4. Flipped reflections
5. Long exposure
6. Professional looking portraits
7. Mini portraits
8. Rim lighting
9. High/fast shutter speed
10. Vintage in modern
11. Double/multiple exposure
12. Forced perspective
13. Zoom burst
14. Multiplicity
15. Panning photography
16. ICM
17. Shaped bokeh
18. B&W
19. High key
20. In the night
21. One-light lighting
22. Refractions
23. Selective color
24. Tilt-shift
25. Into the sun/flare photography
26. white background
27. macro photography
28. Shooting blind
29. Framing
30. Light painting
For the next challenge, I have selected … slow sync flash. When shooting a subject in low light situations you generally have two options: shoot with a flash or shoot with a slow shutter speed. Both of these options are legitimate techniques but both have their weaknesses. Another option is slow sync flash. Slow sync flash allows to you shoot with a longer shutter speed AND fire the flash. You get the best of both worlds: a sharp shot of your subject and some ambient light from the background.
If you're not familiar with slow sync flash (and I wasn't), you may need to look up how to set it up on your camera - even point-and-shoot camera sometimes have a setting that is effectively the same as slow sync flash. Note that this technique will burn through batteries pretty quickly.
This challenge starts Sunday September 14th and will run until Sunday September 28th. Photos to be considered for the challenge should be taken and posted within that time frame. Please tag your shots technique31.
Constructive & kind feedback is encouraged. Feel free to share tips, suggestions or how you were able to get the terrific photo you did. Posting your photo on this thread is encouraged but not required.
Have fun and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
@zosimasy I know - but I first posted the challenge on September 14 so I'm not sure how it either got lost or people just weren't interested. I could extend again, but I only got a couple of photos in the 1-week extension last time. Not sure what to do...
Why don't you change the final date and mention it is being extended. Please keep comments and examples in this thread or the challenge will be lost. @etchasketch1@ksmale@zosimasy@ksmale
@myhrhelper Kathy, voting has already begun on this one. It was extended once and so it ran over 3 weeks with only 8 entries. I think there just wasn't that much interest in this technique, and it has enough of a learning curve that people didn't have the time to experiment with it.
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1. Low key
2. Motion blur
3. Split toning
4. Flipped reflections
5. Long exposure
6. Professional looking portraits
7. Mini portraits
8. Rim lighting
9. High/fast shutter speed
10. Vintage in modern
11. Double/multiple exposure
12. Forced perspective
13. Zoom burst
14. Multiplicity
15. Panning photography
16. ICM
17. Shaped bokeh
18. B&W
19. High key
20. In the night
21. One-light lighting
22. Refractions
23. Selective color
24. Tilt-shift
25. Into the sun/flare photography
26. white background
27. macro photography
28. Shooting blind
29. Framing
30. Light painting
For the next challenge, I have selected … slow sync flash. When shooting a subject in low light situations you generally have two options: shoot with a flash or shoot with a slow shutter speed. Both of these options are legitimate techniques but both have their weaknesses. Another option is slow sync flash. Slow sync flash allows to you shoot with a longer shutter speed AND fire the flash. You get the best of both worlds: a sharp shot of your subject and some ambient light from the background.
If you're not familiar with slow sync flash (and I wasn't), you may need to look up how to set it up on your camera - even point-and-shoot camera sometimes have a setting that is effectively the same as slow sync flash. Note that this technique will burn through batteries pretty quickly.
The internet provides some great resources on this technique. Here's one:
http://digital-photography-school.com/slow-sync-flash/
And you can find some wonderful examples to inspire you:
http://digital-photography-school.com/13-great-slow-sync-flash-images/
This challenge starts Sunday September 14th and will run until Sunday September 28th. Photos to be considered for the challenge should be taken and posted within that time frame. Please tag your shots technique31.
Constructive & kind feedback is encouraged. Feel free to share tips, suggestions or how you were able to get the terrific photo you did. Posting your photo on this thread is encouraged but not required.
Have fun and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.