From the course: Photography Foundations: Flash
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Freeze motion
- One of the cool things you can do with a flash is freeze motion. So, Chan, you have done amazing work with these birds with flying. Thank you. - Them flying, not you. (Chan laughing) All day long, and it's amazing to me a bird this size, they can actually fly surprisingly slowly, and they're very maneuverable in here. to be able to maneuver in such close proximity. - They can kind of hover and break-- So Chan has trained the birds to the point where they will usually come when he calls them, cool frozen shots of them in flight up against this white wall. So Chan's going to stand over there and call the birds, and I'm hopefully going to trip the shutter in time to get them flying. I say they fly slowly, but it's still kind of quick, so-- (feathers whooshing) - And there's a perfect example. Yeah exactly. - It was Sunshine. We've got some technical things to work out. (feathers whooshing) (Chan laughing) that I've positioned up very high. I've got the soft box on it that I was using…
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