Capturing Motion Blur in Studio?

[soconnor]

I’ve been devouring the info on this site for a while now (thanks for the great discussions!), but this is my first time posting.


I’m looking for tips on capturing color motion blur on a white background. I’ve been fairly successful with a black background, but my initial tests with a similar setup and a white background left me less than enthused, so I’m hoping someone out there who knows more about light will point me in the right direction.


Here’s the setup info and an example pic. Essentially, it’s a four second exposure with a “controlled ambient light” (my phrase and probably not a very good one) and two speedlights to freeze the movement at either end of the exposure. White blur comes through beautifully, or course, and colors (provided they’re on the lighter side) show nicely as well. But when the background is white, the blur is faint and drab, no matter what shade of color I try.


What I’m hoping to capture is bright blurs of color between the two ‘frozen’ poses. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

[FlyingPhotog]

Just a rookie with a thought re: Over White

Major distance between background and subject. Essentially two different lighting setups. One for the background yielding bright whites (and flagged to keep any of that light off your subject) and then the much more subdued lighting on your subject.

This should be a very interesting discussion. I'd love to see your eventual results on this.

[SYS]

I'm also interested....

Just did some motion blur shots of a different kind...

[SYS]

This topic is better suited for "Small Flash and Studio Lighting" section. This might explain why such lack of responses. I'd like to learn about this topic, so how about reposting the same at that section?

[soconnor]

Ah! good point, SYS, thanks.

Here it is: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=649196&referrerid=184734