Christmas
- Thread starter brad28
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Need more shutter speed and iso by the looks of it mate as its slightly blurred. If you have a flash, you can get some really nice shots if you use "rear curtain sync" so that the flash fires at the end of the shutter (as its closing) so high iso is still needed to sample the ambient light (so its faithful to the shot, especially the christmas tree lights) whilst the flash illuminates the bauble you have focus on.
Example!
Golden Bauble by jjohnson2012, on Flickr
I used F4 - 1000 iso (to expose for the background lights) and rear sync flash via my SB-900 that was on my camera, yet bounced off the ceiling for a nicer lighting.
If you don't have a flashgun, try resting your camera on something and using a long exposure instead, which can also give some rather nice results!
Example!
Golden Bauble by jjohnson2012, on Flickr
I used F4 - 1000 iso (to expose for the background lights) and rear sync flash via my SB-900 that was on my camera, yet bounced off the ceiling for a nicer lighting.
If you don't have a flashgun, try resting your camera on something and using a long exposure instead, which can also give some rather nice results!
Yup, its a standard setting. Just remember to raise your ISO to make sure you can expose for the ambient lights. Takes a bit of playing around with but the results are worth it. On nikon cameras, just press your flash icon button (if you have one) and move the shutter wheel to adjust the settings between normal, red eye, rear (the one you want) and rear + red eye modes.
If you don't have a button, it'll definitely be in the menu. No issues with a SB-600 either.
