Image Bank - Slow Sync Flash

Slow Sync Photography is taken with a slow shutter speed so that the camera is able to capture the movement of the subject. This enables the motion to be captured within the photo, as a blur. This type of technique is especially good for shooting sports such as dance, as well as just general fast movements. The images above are examples of this. For instance, the second to last image is of a couple dancing together, with a slightly longer shutter speed the photographer has been able to capture the different positions of their dance, so there is a blur of their movement from one side of the image to the other, but we are still able to see the dance positions clearly. Photos such as the last image, whereby the movement is so quick that the image has only been able to capture a stretched out blur, show the journey of the model from one place to another. In this image the blur is portraying the distance the skateboarder has traveled. These images are especially clever because they capture the model in one position in focus, as well as the blur, so you can clearly identify what the picture is of, rather than one massive blur.