Learning with the Fang

Once again, the digital photography school has inspired me. My first experiment involved creative use of flash, this one the technique of camera pan.

Start with a slow moving vehicle.

Get in close to the action.

Then on to the racetrack (OK, behind the mesh fence)Note the nice straight lines formed by panning smoothly along the square-mesh fence.

Not [...]

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I usually HATE using flash on photos – always seems to ruin any sense of mood or feeling in my pictures. But then I read an excellent tutorial over on the digital photography school about ‘Darkening with Light’.  Inspired by the images that seem to have no background whatsoever, and interested in the notion of [...]

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