Hi all,
I've wanted to try high speed photography for a while. I'm hoping someone could help advise me as to how I can get my background totally black. I imagine if I could get the background far away, it would help but my problem is this was taken over the bath and as such the wall was only 30 cm's behind the balloon. I lit the shot with a single undifused flash to the left of shot. I could have used a softbox but needed the run the flash at 1/128th and it was eating too many stops of power.
Is it possible to maybe use a snoot and grid? I think that's what they are called, to point the light just at the balloon or will I still need the background further away for fall off not to hit it?
Maybe in the garage next time as I have walls further back from where I would have to shoot.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards,
Steve
Bang! by Steve Babb, on Flickr
I've wanted to try high speed photography for a while. I'm hoping someone could help advise me as to how I can get my background totally black. I imagine if I could get the background far away, it would help but my problem is this was taken over the bath and as such the wall was only 30 cm's behind the balloon. I lit the shot with a single undifused flash to the left of shot. I could have used a softbox but needed the run the flash at 1/128th and it was eating too many stops of power.
Is it possible to maybe use a snoot and grid? I think that's what they are called, to point the light just at the balloon or will I still need the background further away for fall off not to hit it?
Maybe in the garage next time as I have walls further back from where I would have to shoot.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards,
Steve
Bang! by Steve Babb, on Flickr