Multi Flash Photography

Multi Flash Photography

This is a technique in photography where you used a flashing light and a longer shutter speed and have a model standing in front of the camera so you can have multiple shots of them in one photo. This has to be done in front of a black screen so you cannot see anything in the background and so the main focus in on the model. For example, if you had you shutter speed on for longer than a second and have three flashes, you'll end up with three shots of the model.









Eadweard Muybridge





Eadweard Muybridge was one of the first people to do photography like this. By looking at his photo, this allows me to understand how people could of done photography using the resources available to them and how far technology has developed to be able to manipulate photos even further to create the multi flash technique.

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Best Images



I like this photo because I have managed to capture the model smiling and dancing which creates an overall happy atmosphere. Also, I have managed to fill most of the frame which helps demonstrate that I understand this technique and I can use it in the future.



I like this photo because I have created and interesting affect of the models going up and down which makes it seem as if she has multiple arms at once, this almost reminds me of those types of dances where they would stand directly behind each other and move their arms in time with each other.

Overall, I really liked this technique because I found it fun and interesting to do and I ended up with cool results, and I could use this technique in the future if I was doing portraiture.

Worst Images



I don’t like this image because it looks very chaotic and busy because the model is standing roughly in one spot. To avoid this in the future I would ask the model to move around the area a bit more to make it look less condense in one area.



I don’t like this photo because the model is mainly in one corner because she wasn’t on the other side when the flash went off. Therefore, this makes the photo seem less effective because the model is not spaced out enough.

For this shoot, we set our cameras to shutter speed 4, ISO 200 and f stop 16. This allowed us to have the correct exposure for when the flash went off. We used a soft box for the flash and someone would keep clicking the button manually throughout the shot.