Work Diary - Slow Sync

What is it? This technique combines a slower than normal shutter speed combined with a flash during the exposure.

    Shoot Evaluation:

I personally found this technique one of the more difficult ones to shoot as it's hard to get the balance right between the lighting, exposure, shutter speed etc, otherwise you just end up with a result that looks like 'blurring'.We particularly found a problem with the lighting coming from the red head, so we had to apply a filter to change the colour slightly to give a better blur. Other than this initial hiccup, the shoot was actually quite enjoyable, but because we had a big group, we individually had less time to shoot it and I feel if i had have had longer I could have produced some even better results, as not all of them came out as well as I wanted them to. 

I really like the motion in this photo, as it looks like my model, Alice, is performing a dance move, as all she moved was her arm, and tried to keep the rest of her body as still as possible. I think this image worked well because Alice was wearing a white t-shirt, which reflected more of the light and gave it a brighter 'glow' making the sharper part of the image stand out a lot more than the rest of the image.







I like this image too because of the 'creation' made by my model, Emma, moving certain parts of her body when I released the shutter. It has meant that the motion captured her moving her head, but her body kept still, making it appear as if she had two heads, and actually also shows contrast quite well as her two 'different heads' show different emotions which looks really effective.



How can I apply this to my personal project?
Like the last annotated image above, I think this would be a useful technique to use to show a change or contrast in emotions. As for this technique it only needs to be a very slight movement to create the effect, I could get my models to move by changing facial expressions to show a contrast in one single picture.