Starving Artistry

 

So just when I thought I was being clever by shooting in slow motion to get that motion strobe effect (and also getting discouraged and ready to trash the idea), I was reading in forums about how to manipulate the Sony SR11 to do whatever you want it to despite its limitations. This bigwig in the forums named Steve Mullen apparently wrote a book on how to utilize your camera to its utmost potential… but he makes you pay for it. He wrote an ebook and charges $35 for it, but it’s a 230 page beast of a manual. Needless to say, I bought it and within 15 minutes of reading discovered how to manipulate my camera to get the effect I desired. I still need to play around with it more, but this is good news.

Basically he tells you how to manipulate the exposure, combined with the preset camera settings (portrait mode, night mode, etc) to acheive your desired shutter speed and aperture. Pretty niiice.

You might not be sure what you’re looking at in the video, but notice that you can clearly see the pen at all times. There’s no motion blur or anything. That’s motion strobe. Might also get lost a little bit in the youtube encoding… but it looks good as a raw file for truth.