Another location shoot, this time I wanted to try hi-speed sync. I found a keen biker through a friend and off we went to Leckhampton Hill in Cheltenham.
In order to freeze the motion of the bike on some of the jumps and let the bike 'pop' out of the picture and leave the background a little murky I wanted to use the hi-speed sync function in the flash, (which allows you to override the 200/second max shutter speed in the camera and still fire the flash.)
It didn't quite work as planned as my flashes are Nissin (di866's) as opposed to Canon ones and need a dedicated sync cord rather than trigger for it to allow the higher stutter speed. But, 200/s seemed to be sufficient to freeze the bike over the jumps though this is something I will be trying out again (with said sync cord!)
For the shot with the puddle I used a flash each side of the track to highlight the splash of the mud, pretty simple but I like the highlights on the edge of the tyre and in the splash.
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