How to Freeze and Capture Motion Using Flash | Master Your Craft

Thanks for this. What material was the model using to wave around? It looks amazing. Thanks.

Great video, very informative. Question: It would be nice to know the best approach to have a set of these photos in 1 image. Showing the movement.

wow! explanation is amazing and understandable! I have heard this concept before and have seen many movement frozen without a clue as to how its down, the secret is out! Thank you for breaking it DOWN!!! excuse me while I go freeze motion! Practice, Practice, practice. Thanks my favorite Mr. Pye! Gratitude!

Awesome video, what kinds of backdrop matertial is it?

Thank you
The editing video will be appreciated
Thank you once again

Would love to see the retouching!

Excellent tutirial covering the salinet points in a clear and structured manner. A follow up on editing would be awesome...

Wow really love this tutorial

Great video. Ghosting from ambient light is definitely something to keep in mind and try to avoid. 📸📸📸

Wouldn't you need or prefer a Flash head that has a really short duration like High end profoto or Elinchrom's? I would imagine those westcotts do not have a very short flash duration.. Specially with white backgrounds!

This is cool. great tutorial and thanks.

Excellent video. Thank you.

Your Presets Are So Crazy🔥🔥🔥🔥

nice!..wat type of backround s dat?..vinyl material?..thank u for sharing this technique...☺😘😎

Good stuff !! Flash duration is so under rated …

Thank you so much! I wish you have tutorial on how you post edited these photos. ❤

Thanks Pye 👍

Yeah I love the new intro

Thanks for your videos Pye!!!! yes yes, we want post- video :D

thank you so much for all great content Pye. just curious, don't you teather in studio?

I have learned something

Yes defenetely its just a Flash Duration problem and xsnyc. Then we should go to Powerpack which has flash duration more than 6000ms, like Broncolor or Prophoto. And can tell us its t 0.5 and t 0.1. SB900 ??? try yourself at home. Hahaha

Brilliant video!! Also what a fabulous model - such poise and execution of movement, total poetry in motion!!

Happy Deepavali

Nice video! I must have missed the section on creating similar images using one strobe. Would you mind sharing that process? Thanks

great video.. loved it very helpful
i would like to ask... the Male Model wearing All Black with Black Hat...
is his name.. Jhesus Aponte?

Thank you..great video..

Did anybody knows if htere is a tutorial of how this picture was edited? Pye was mentioning he would show how to edit this

Ive been shoot dance for several years in the studio and always iso 100...I do one shot at a time not a series and that seems to work for me with tack sharp images and perfect peak action shots...I like the placement of your lights...Ill try that although not many of us have your kind of space and Im not sure if this will work but thanks for the tips.

best yet

I only have 8.5ft with my backdrop. The problem is a jump with fabric, it leaves the backdrop area. I would like to see how you can extend that backdrop in post processing, thats all I can think of to do other than tear out the roof and make it higher :)

I was totally expecting the video to discuss the FJ400 freeze mode function, since that feature is designed to do exactly what this video is about. I understand the freeze mode also reduces the power, but I'd guess it's more efficient at lowering the flash duration, than just dialing down the power in regular flash mode.

Any tips on focussing? My R6 struggles to focus even with the modeling light on because the room is too dark before the strobe fires. If my model is close to the light it's fine but when I try to do a full body dace shot it's too dark. (I'm using one Einstein light and there's not a lot of natural light for proper settings)

I have more than 15 years freelancer photographer experience for performance arts including in Los Angeles Music Center , always take photo on stage only ! Try to capture the best moments of all difference movements and changing lightings without flash in one shooting spot ! Any studio or training photography would not shown the trued dancing photo shooting event that are nice looking ! Everything are changing, moving and differences , try to capture the best moments ! Not the second chances to try !

The dancings are always performance on stage instated of shooting in studio lighting . Try to capture the best moments . I have more than 15 years experience to photo shooting performance arts in several music centers/theaters in Los Angeles !

I was wondering if you can do fashion Jewelry, gym outfits, or product shots? Thanks.

ok - so you are using the mechanical shutter? or curtain shutter? or which shutter for HSS high speed sync

if you use iso 800 in order to use a lower flash power will you have iso grain too or does the flash duration result in sharp images within the skin texture of the model?

Wow! Great info! I shoot a lot of dance and this was extremely helpful! Pye, you're a bad a**!

Love to see the post-production of how you control the BG.

""BUT.." Long time follower of Pye and Adorama,
but there are many things I would do differently approaching this shoot. (I know there's many ways to do the same thing but I would..
1) go to the back of the studio and shoot from as far as possible zoomed in enough to just about cover the backdrop in the frame. 50mm-85mm (higer if studio lets you) lenses will help you to avoid unnaturally long limbs that end up close to the edge of a wide angle lens.) Clean up would be easier with less distraction at the edge of the frame and dancer look more pleasing "close to life" without the wide angle look.
2) shoot from a lower angle (hip height or lower so jumps look higher and the dancer can concentrate on the form instead of the power of the jump)
3) when you have only a 400ws light and an umbrella why dont you turn that light around and pointed to the dancer or use a silver interior umbrella instead or even better silver inside with diffusion outside like a softlighter or umbrella softbox?
4) when you don't have the luxury of a 1200ws light on a low setting with t1 1/2000 or lower learn the movement and predict the peak point of the jump so you can take one shot instead of "spray and pray"
5) probably would draw those curtains too for less ambiant light that can mess with the exposure. this way I can have a wider aperture lets say f5.6-11 this way the strobe doesn't have to work overtime to push the light through the tiny aperture allowing me to use a lower ISO.

I'm London based but would love to work with dancers from the USA. Maybe one day I can visit.

PS.: The above is just personal opinion and what would work for me and in no way mocking the work of Pye and Adorama.

Regards,
Peter Vagvolgyi Photography

Hello Pye!
What are you camera settings besides the ISO, aperture, and SS? Thank you!
PS….. I have a canon EOS 5 d mark lll

The explanation of flash duration was a great ah-ha moment for me. Great educational piece here.

Your great sir and explain about post too... thanks tons of time..

Dancers are such great subjects to shoot. I also like Nika Ritshel here on YT. She does some very artistic stuff.

Stupidly, I would have activated HSS and do a shot by shot. But having the drive mode and a sequence makes it easier to get the shot you want and not redo the model because its difficult to trigger it. A lesson learned

Great refresher, thanks!; I haven't shot with my strobes for a couple of years (!) and as fate would have it planning to shoot a dancer very soon. You do say at one point that the different between main and fill is about one stop, and I set my lights separately in the "M" stage in any event :) But a question of curiosity, is it because of the particular lights you're using (I'm a profoto guy) that you gave the power setting in watt seconds? Worse are you doing the math? :) Again, this video really brought it all back quickly for me (and helped clarify beautifully the role ISO when shooting flash!) -- thanks!

Nice presentation manner !

really helpful, thanks Pye!

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