1/320 sec at f/7.1 ISO 200 Canon EOS 40D EF 50mm f/1.8 II © Adam Marin
March Madness is here! Today’s image is one of my old basketballs, The basketball is lit from behind with two bare-bulb B800′s, and from the front with a 580EXII. I then processed the image using Topaz Adjust 4 to give it a little more gritty feel to it. There are a couple of other interesting things about this image. If you happen to have a Canon 40D you would know that the maximum sync speed of the 40D is 1/250 sec. You may notice that I shot the image at 1/320 sec, faster than the sync speed. Why did I do this? Well I wanted to use the faster sync speed to create a natural gradient on the top of the image. You may say, but the top looks brighter than the bottom…well, that is the second interesting part. I actually held the camera completely upside down in order to make the gradient come up from the bottom. I then flipped the image in Lightroom 3. This image is a combination of techniques that I picked up from a Scott Kelby web cast the other night, and from David Zeiser’s book “Captured By The Light”. I think it makes the image more interesting to me, because I know what went in to make it, and now you do as well.
Today I read page 154 in the 40D manual.
