December 14, 2007 - Following my theme from yesterday, falling game pieces.
Patience pays off. It took a few hundred dice tosses to get 14 that I liked, 4 that I really liked, and this one that's my favorite. That and some trial and error with the lighting along the way.
This shot was lit with a flashlight from the left side and the on-camera flash bouncing off a playing card up to the ceiling. Exposure was 1/15 sec at f/5.6, with the ISO set to 800. I bumped up the ISO because I didn't want a longer exposure (though I could have used a stronger light on the side instead). My Canon 10D is pretty noisy at higher ISOs, but the Luminance Noise Reduction in Lightroom cleaned that up surprisingly well.
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Adriano Comissoli [deleted] 53 months ago | reply
I had one with the sme title, but your is better than mine!
valePuffa 53 months ago | reply
great photo!!!
dain of the iron hills 52 months ago | reply
wonderful shot. Patience really does pay off.
{Nelly Rodriguez} 49 months ago | reply
so cool!
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Adriano Comissoli [deleted] 48 months ago | reply
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Die Himmelsträumerin 48 months ago | reply
Great idea! =) You've managed it very well!
Fahd Munir 46 months ago | reply
Awesome picture,
Rezwan Razzaq 43 months ago | reply
this is so interesting!! thanks for sharing. just awesome :)
serametin 40 months ago | reply
simply awesome. thks for sharing the lighting info and camera setting :)
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Damian (www.damianburcher.com) 37 months ago | reply
Excellent shot. Thanks for the info.
sumoetx 37 months ago | reply
Great shot very creative! Thanks for the info on how it was done.
Jerrica Raglin 34 months ago | reply
Very cool capture.
Bergenseren 34 months ago | reply
Incredibly good idea and excellent executed.
Kleiber Fragoso 33 months ago | reply
Wow!!! Beautiful motion blur!
Ola Vista Photography 31 months ago | reply
very interesting shot. Thanks for the description of the process
boginia2 16 months ago | reply
I love this; it must have taken you lots and lots of tries to get the trails to show up in such an interesting pattern. Wonderfully done!
Fierce Girl Design 13 months ago | reply
Thanks for explaining your process. This month's photo theme on my blog (fiercegirldesign.wordpress.com/) is "motion blur" and your explanation really helped me. Thanks! And great shot!!
jjay84j 12 months ago | reply
Awesome shot..
Dave's Parallel Universe 8 months ago | reply
amazing
maiadesigns 3 months ago | reply
Like! Thanks for sharing the tech details so we can try it ourselves.