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Blacking out the room and adjusting shutter speed

Blacking out the room and adjusting shutter speed - Photoshop Tutorial

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Blacking out the room and adjusting shutter speed

- The sequencing sort of falls under the category of luck. I had been shooting earlier sets at like a sixth of a second, a fifth of a second but I knew that with the LEDs and trying to get some definitive tracer lines of motion the shutter speed would have to be open for a lengthier period of time. So that's when we went to a seriously blacked out room and I was able to take my shutter from you know, a fifth of a second, which is sort of slow to where I am now, which is three seconds. Which is really slow. Three seconds gives her time to spin. Time to move. Time to you know, kind of emote, if you will, with the lights on her body and her arms and her legs. It's inconsequential to the exposure of the flash because remember my f-stop corresponds to my flash. So my f-stop currently is 7.1 and the flash is at full power. I have two speed lights, SB-5000s into a Lastolite Octa with a grid. The grid is important because light blowing all over the place in this studio is a bad thing. I need…

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