Digital Photography 101

Chapter 5: Lighting Systems

5.9: Slow sync flash photography

One of the desirable effects of flash photography comes from a burst of light, which will freeze motion. If we want to correctly expose the background in low light we may need to leave the shutter open longer to let in enough light in places where the flash will not reach. You will need to use a tripod.

The flash can burst on the opening of the shutter, called front curtain slow sync or on the closure of the shutter or rear curtain slow sync. The artistic value of this is that motion can be frozen in time during a time-delayed composition leaving a pleasing trail of movement behind a subject in motion. Moody creative flash photography will result.

I hope I have enlightened you on the virtues of our most available lighting system in flash photography. We can now look at common lighting systems in the studio.

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