Strobe photography

Line- Element of art is defined by a point moving in space. Also line may be two or three dimensional, flat, or even limited to height and width. Shape- Element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width. Form- An element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses the volume; it includes height, width AND depth. Form may also be free flowing. Value- The lightness or the darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value and black is the darkest. The value…

Certain higher end flashes have a strobe (AKA repeating flash) mode that can flash repeatedly, freezing a moving subject in various positions in a single

Bobby Jones by Harold E. Edgerton. Search the Smithsonian American Art museum collection, one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States.

I recently learned how to shoot "stroboscopic" photos and I thought I'd share what I learned. The word "stroboscopic" sounds daunting and super technical, but really all it means is "shooting a photo with a strobe light". In this case, the strobe light is an external flash... #Canon5DMarkII #flash

Photos of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz legends playing at photographer Gjon Mili's studio in the 1940s.

I've been reading photographers' discussions on various external strobe accessories. I had these tests done some years back for my textbook, "Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach." From top to bottom, the Indoor/Outdoor comparisons are for: Direct Flash Bouncing the strobe off a ceiling Lumiquest Omnidome Through an umbrella Off an umbrella Through a softbox Outdoors or in a large ballroom or gymnasium, all the accessories work less well at softening shadows. The scattered light rays…

A bullet being shot through an apple, an egg being cracked into a fan, or a play-by-play of Pancho Gonzales's famous serve ... MIT professor Harold Edgerton invented the strobe flash in the 1930s – and his stroboscopic photography captured amazing moments that would otherwise be missed in the blink of an eye

Self-taught photographer Laurence Demaison plays — delightfully — with film photography and the very idea of photography. Taking full advantage of showing what the camera sees (sometimes over long periods of exposure) compared to what the human eye cannot or does not see, she creates rich, quirky, complex images without the aid of digital manipulation. What you see was really there (over time).