Freezing time photography is easier than you think
Ever wanted to know how those freezing time photography are done? This effect is fascinating and there are a lot of different photographers who use this technique in their photography. I will describe here how that is done in a couple simple steps. So, let’s at first try to figure out what makes a shot freeze. Freezing time is done by having your shutter open and close very fast. It’s not easy to take a shot like that, because you have to either use a continuous drive mode on your camera or you need to take a lot of tries. With the continuous drive mode not all of your pictures will look good, because some things may not be in focus. Here’s one example of this technique used on a water balloon:
Your camera settings for a shot like that should be f/11 or f/18 to get black background, ISO 100 or 200 and shutter speed at 150-200. The freeze effect is reached by a speed light pointed at the balloon. As I said earlier, a shot like this would be hard to achieve. I think that I got that shot after we blew up 10 or more balloons. As you can see this shot is making a freezing time photography effect and it looks awesome. I wish I was able to get it a little earlier to see the actual balloon shape made by water. I found some good representation of this technique by Canon.
Here’s another good technique to freeze time photography, but using another camera setting and another look. It’s called blur motion. For this type of technique you don’t need auxiliary speed light, but instead you need auxiliary continuous light. Continuous light and shutter opened for very long creates this effect.
For this shot I had my shutter open for 15 seconds, my f-stop was at the 6 or 8, ISO at 100 and continuous LED light pointed towards sugar and strawberry on the right side. This also creates a cool freezing time photography effect. It’s unusual and something that our eye can never see, so it creates a lot of attraction. These could be amazing product shots with a unique effect.
