Tae Kwon Do / nunchuck photos
Last Friday I went out to my sons tae kwon do dojang to take some night photography of them doing their nunchuck training camp. Every so often, they hold different camps and whenever they’ve done the nunchucks at night, I’ve wanted to get in there and take some photos. It wasn’t until this past Friday that I was able to schedule some time to go down there and do just that.
The first 10 minutes of shooting, I was getting what I had envisioned, yet the results weren’t satisfying to me. I had envisioned lots of different colored streaks throughout the photo, which was simple enough to do. It just wasn’t enough. So, I ended up using a strobe light to capture the students just prior to them starting their forms. The flash enabled me to freeze the students at the time I started the elapsed photo and then continue capturing the streaks for the remainder of the exposure. The end result is what is posted above (click on photos to see a larger version).
The setup:
1. Exposure: 30 seconds
2. Aperture: f/5.6
3. ISO: 100
4. Mirror Lockup on
5. Noise reduction on
6. Cable release
7. Tripod
8. Strobe: 580EX II at +0 with diffuser, bounced off of ceiling