What technique was used for this shot?

[fluke]

I have a keen golfer in the family who saw this pic in a mag and liked it.

Can anyone give any pointers/sites to read up on what technique was used?

Cheers all :)


Edit: Forgot the pic...

http://www.dziennik.pl/files/archive/00069/fr_Howard_Schatz__RL_69919g.jpg


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[Yogesh Sarkar]

Edit: nevermind

[ryant35]

I would guess 1 exposure with multiple flashes. My 430EX manual explains how to set your flash to fire a number of times within a certain time.

[BottomBracket]

High speed strobe firing with the camera shutter set at Bulb.

[GM_of_OLC]

I would guess 1 exposure with multiple flashes. My 430EX manual explains how to set your flash to fire a number of times within a certain time.
430EX I or 430EX II?
Because I would feel pretty dumb for thinking this whole time my 430EX I couldn't do that.

[ryant35]

430EX I or 430EX II?
Because I would feel pretty dumb for thinking this whole time my 430EX I couldn't do that.

Uh, it just says EX on it, so I assume it's an EX I.

Maybe it was the 540EZ that could do that... I've never actually tried it, but I knew it was possible one way or another.

[ryant35]

Page 27 of the 430EX manual mentions Stroboscopic flash but that's it... I'll do some more research.

[FlyingPhotog]

Page 27 of the 430EX manual mentions Stroboscopic flash but that's it... I'll do some more research.

Strobe technique is a fast way to a new flash if over used...

Also, it cuts the light output too.

Just food for thought. Post up when you've done some experiments!

[ryant35]

This was listed in the 540EZ manual, not I wish I tried this before I sold mine...

In MULTI mode the SEL/SET button alternates between setting the frequency of the flashes, the total number of flashes, and the power level of each of the flashes. Press in once and you can set the Hz (frequency), with the +/- buttons, between 1 and 100 cycles per second. Pressing the SEL/SET button twice will allow you to set, with the +/- buttons, the total number of flashes to be fired between 1 and 40. If you do not enter a number the flash will continue until the flash capacitor is discharged. The total number of flash pulses that can be fired this way depends on the flash power level setting, the frequency and the power source of the flash.

[poloman]

I know that feature is available in the 580ex. I believe it is not available in the 430ex.

[watchtherocks]

The golfers head is sharp. I'm guessing either it wasn't stoboscopic flash, or it was used with another technique (latter most likely.)

[poloman]

That could be handled in post processing.

[timmyeatchips]

The golfers head is sharp. I'm guessing either it wasn't stoboscopic flash, or it was used with another technique (latter most likely.)

Looks like the swing has been done with a strobe but the final frame is a seperate exposure stuck over the top

[FlyingPhotog]

Looks like the swing has been done with a strobe but the final frame is a seperate exposure stuck over the top

+1

And the sequence appears to be from top of the downswing through impact .. No backswing.

[fluke]

Cheers for the replies all, looks like my 430 isnt up to the job after all :D

[tonylong]

From my reading, I think the 430 can be used in this way as a slave, just not directly.

[neumanns]

Yes and no...The princapal can be done with stroboscopic on a speedlight.

However speedlight is not up to that many cycles at that power.

It is lickley a combination of strobing and post proccesing.

Your flash is capable of simular effect but the power required and the recyle time would not permit it. If you overcome the recycle issue your flash would be a molten pile of plastic when finished!

[Ook]

Yes and no...The princapal can be done with stroboscopic on a speedlight.

Sort of. You could achieve the same general effect with a single exposure and stroboscopic flash, but unless you use a seperate final frame, the white line on his left sleeve would blur through his body, whereas in this picture they end at his right arm.

Looks like the swing has been done with a strobe but the final frame is a seperate exposure stuck over the top