Can motion blur be avoided with use of an on camera flash ?
Fran Welch wrote: I was reading an article, and perhaps it was my interpolation of it, I thought you can set the power on the on camera flash to what you want. Just adding a 'splash' of light. Which I thought might be enough to avoid motion blur from hand held. Whoops on me!
In macro, I have produced hand shake just as much as I have achieved motion blur with a flash. lol
There is one moment that I consistently get motion blur with a flash, and that's when I am photographing bees. There wings are regularly blurred. I always found this an interesting phenomenon and never looked in to the reason why, because I had always thought flashes freeze motion. Perhaps it has something do do with the speed and the reflective chitin? bees can "quiver" too and that will sometimes cause a little bit. These are super fast movements though.
Troponin wrote:
Fran Welch wrote: I was reading an article, and perhaps it was my interpolation of it, I thought you can set the power on the on camera flash to what you want. Just adding a 'splash' of light. Which I thought might be enough to avoid motion blur from hand held. Whoops on me!
In macro, I have produced hand shake just as much as I have achieved motion blur with a flash. lol
There is one moment that I consistently get motion blur with a flash, and that's when I am photographing bees. There wings are regularly blurred. I always found this an interesting phenomenon and never looked in to the reason why, because I had always thought flashes freeze motion. Perhaps it has something do do with the speed and the reflective chitin? bees can "quiver" too and that will sometimes cause a little bit. These are super fast movements though.
The ability to freeze motion with a flash depends on the duration of the flash. If your flash has "Power Levels", the lesser levels have a much shorter flash duration than full power...... Here is an article that you may find interesting... https://improvephotography.com/46974/flash-duration-speedlights-long-pop-flash/
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