Thanks everyone for your useful tips and ideas, much appreciated, knew I could rely on the forum to clear up a few things for me. I'll try a few different ways of doing it but feel a lot more confident about it...if it's any good I'll post it up for your inspection. And also thanks for the pointers on copyright, fortunately it's not a direct copy the client is after, just the feel of the image...ghostly see-through image type thing. Cheers, Jonathan. On 8/9/08 19:08, "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, September 8, 2008 11:38, jonathan turner wrote: > >> The picture is shot in a church (quite dark and lit with ambient light) >> and >> has a woman with a torch, who appears to have a ghostly quality about her >> (she is 'see-through' but frozen by a small amount of flash). I believe it >> has been shot using the 'rear curtain synch' mode, though I may be wrong. > > Sounds like a typical combination of continuous light during a long > exposure with some flash. "rear curtain" synch is when the flash is > triggered just before the second curtain of the focal-plane shutter starts > to close (normally the flash is triggered as soon as the first curtain is > fully open). (If you happen not to know how a focal plane shutter works > I'm sure the net is full of articles with nice illustrations and such.) So > "rear curtain" means that the moving subject is frozen at the *end* of > their travels during the exposure (which is almost always what you want > for this kind of shot). > > As I just mentioned to Andy, I remember my camera (Nikon D200) manual as > having a note that rear-curtain synch doesn't work with studio flash. I > don't have the book here to give any more detail. And it makes no sense > to me. Which is why I remember it so clearly. So you'd better do some > tests ASAP to make sure you know what works with *your* setup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Jonathan Turner Photographer e: home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx t: 0113 217 1275 m:07796 470573 7 Scott Hall Walk, Leeds, LS7 3JQ http://www.jonathan-turner.com
