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Long exposure action photo!

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TaranItUp
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Hello, I was wondering if anybody new how to take a longexposure action shot. Where you get your subject still while still having a long exposure background like stars. Here is an example.
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Apr 9 2012 12:43AM
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TaranItUp
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Wouldn't this still create motion blur?
Apr 9 2012 1:13AM
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remster
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Woah, that is hella sick
Apr 9 2012 3:47AM
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TWoods
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only if your flash duration is long. Speedlights have really short durations.

Also, you have to frame your subject against a perfectly dark sky or portion of your frame, or you subject will be poorly defined
Apr 9 2012 3:56AM
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PJS.
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I've always wanted to do this, one of the sickest things you could do with long exposures imo.
Apr 9 2012 10:18AM
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Sklar
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The photog is grant gunderson
I thought I heard that this shot was one exposure
Apr 9 2012 10:39AM
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Sklar
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Yea, that's what I was thinking
Apr 9 2012 11:03AM
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TaranItUp
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Yeah I was thinking that it could be shopped, but it is way to clean to be shopped. I couldn't find the actual photo, it was just a shot of my screensaver.
Apr 9 2012 11:10AM
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EC-Skier
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do you have to release the shutter right as he goes by also? or just the flash?
Apr 9 2012 11:39AM
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TWoods
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That's the article? So vague....
Apr 9 2012 2:24PM
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TWoods
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got ya.

I was pretty certain that Grant said it was one exposure as well. I never understood how there was no ghosting in the skier as even the shadows in the other part of the image had some ambient orange light in them. I figured he had used something to cover that part of the frame by covering part of the lens
Apr 9 2012 2:34PM
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Benji.
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So sick.
Apr 9 2012 10:56PM
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