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Anatomy of a shot: Strobe at low shutter speed

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Anatomy of a shot: Strobe at low shutter speed

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- [Deke] All right, now it's time for part three of our look at the anatomy of a shot, and this time we're going to be diagramming what it looks like to shoot with a strobe at a low shutter speed. Specifically, once again, 1/60 of a second. So, as usual, we're starting with the sunlight lighting our octopus, and the reason for this is, by the way, that no matter what we do, we can't turn off the sun. So, it's always going to be there to some extent in our shot. - [Hergen] So now, let's bring in our strobe. So, the strobe is off 'cause remember that strobe is only going to fire instantaneously unlike the LED which was on continuously. - [Deke] Now, the strobe doesn't necessarily fire the second you hit that shutter release. It does fire, of course, within a second of it, but not exactly precisely at the same moment. And the idea is you can set it to fire at the beginning of the shot, or at the end of the shot, but in any case, the shutter is going to be open when that strobe fires. -…

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