The swans they are a coming

Swans rush to the bank of the Lough looking for bread from the crazy guy hanging over the water with a large black object…

This shows off one of my favourite night-time techniques. Long exposure with a flash. The long exposure captures the background while the flash illuminates the foreground objects, along with some nice movement blur.
It works really well at parties when people are dancing, especially if you’re lucky to capture a laughing face while the body is in motion.

16 Jan This entry was written by Donncha O Caoimh, posted on January 16, 2007 at 9:55 am, filed under Abstract, Birds, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Lights, Long Exposure, Night, Photos, Sigma 18-200, The Lough, Urban and tagged Abstract, Birds, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Lights, Long Exposure, Night, Photos, Sigma 18-200, swan, swans, The Lough, Urban. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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micki

Posted January 17, 2007 at 5:58 am | #

I can see this working well at a party! Looks good on the swans as well.

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deepak

Posted April 26, 2007 at 7:36 pm | #

Hi
Can you tell me what camera you used for capturing the above swan picture?
I am looking to buy a new camera and i am very interested in developing my phototgraphic skills.

thanks
deepak

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Donncha O Caoimh

Posted April 27, 2007 at 8:36 am | #

Deepak – that was taken with a Canon 20D, but it could have been taken with any reasonably complex camera.

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Posted October 11, 2007 at 12:53 pm | #

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