Create Art with speed Photography
Speed photography is one of the most challenging genres of photography for me so far.
Fast cars, motorcycles and airplanes are not my thing. Therefore I had to come up with something else for speed photography. There are two ways how to create speed photography. Either with a relatively long exposure to illustrate the speed on the "moving" background. Or you can capture such a short moment which you can't capture with the naked eye. With fast cars and motorcycles as well as with fighter jets you often use the former to make the background blur with tracers.
Looking for a different subject for speed photography, I was desperate to shoot something very fast and freeze for a moment in an extremely sharp image. So we bought an aquarium. We filled it about 90% with water. A black background darkened the scenery completely. With two flashes from the side I was able to expose what happened. To prevent reflections of me and the camera in the glass of the aquarium I made a hole in a black background paper as big as the lens to be able to take a picture through it.
Setup of the speed photography experiment in our studio (shot on iPhone 11, sorry for the quality)
Now the scene is ready and the actual photographing can begin. We will throw fruits into the water and record the immersion into the water. So the speed is very fast. Although the water slows down the fall a lot there are fruits that reach the bottom of the aquarium almost unchecked. For example, apples and oranges that have hardly any surface that could slow down the fruits in the water.
It is well known that there are limits to the flash synchronization when taking pictures with very short shutter release times. We already know these problems from drop photography and they are quickly solved. More about drops photography another time. If you are interested in this, please leave a comment.
So it can start and we could take some great pictures in a very short time. We don't both work with the same camera manufacturer, so in the meantime we also exchanged the equipment, so that we both can gain our own experiences with both cameras.
In a second small setup we also tried some red wine, which splashes out of the red wine glass. This time with a white background. Which of the two concepts do you personally like better? I would appreciate your opinion in the comments.
I took all my pictures with the new Canon EOS R5 and the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2. I am very satisfied with the camera. The handling has again drastically improved compared to my old Canon EOS 5D mark IV. What I really like, especially with landscape photos, is that now finally a flipscreen is installed. More about my equipment you can find in my Blog Post.
All pictures shot on Canon EOS R5
