Mountain Biking pics at night

Apologies if this question has been asked already.

I have a 450D and looking for a simple flash purely to take photo's at night (and possibly in the day when conditions require) of mountain biking. I want to do the rear synch thingy to get good light trails behind the rider. Also possibly in the future if money allowed use the flash as an off camera flash.

What suggestions of equipment might you very knowledgable people suggest?

Does the 450D support rear synch or is it something you do on the flash unit?


Phil

second curtain sync will be activated on your external flash i believe. that is if you buy the 430ex/580ex speedlites

Yep - the button on the flash makes 2nd curtain work. Otherwise, you need to get the riders to ride backwards...

As a former mountain bike racer, I'd have to ask whether the riders are going to be okay with this? Riding at night is always sketchy...even with the most expensive lights out there.....so getting a blast of significantly brighter light shot at me would be a VERY angering/bad thing because it would destroy your night vision and blind you very possibly into a crash.

Matatazela wrote in post #7646808
Yep - the button on the flash makes 2nd curtain work. Otherwise, you need to get the riders to ride backwards...

Hadnt thought of that one cheers

Cathpah wrote in post #7647327
As a former mountain bike racer, I'd have to ask whether the riders are going to be okay with this? Riding at night is always sketchy...even with the most expensive lights out there.....so getting a blast of significantly brighter light shot at me would be a VERY angering/bad thing because it would destroy your night vision and blind you very possibly into a crash.

I understand what your saying but these would be my mates and I also ride and have had it happen to me and didnt find it that bad. I would also never do it in a space where it might be deemed dangerous to do so having been in that situation also.

Phil

Since your in the UK and ride you'll have probably read MBUK magazine, the guy who does what seems like most of the photography for that mag and a few others has a cool blog worth reading. He shows some of the setups and executions of pics and shares thoughts about the best ways to make it all look kinda cool.

http://sebrogers.typep​ad.com/

Lithian wrote in post #7651152
Since your in the UK and ride you'll have probably read MBUK magazine, the guy who does what seems like most of the photography for that mag and a few others has a cool blog worth reading. He shows some of the setups and executions of pics and shares thoughts about the best ways to make it all look kinda cool.

http://sebrogers.typep​ad.com/

Thanks a lot for that