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      03-21-2010, 11:02 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by scollins View Post
Very interesting rodi! Does that work because of the direction the curtains travel to expose the frame? In effect, the flash duration is only during the "upper" part of the slit, which when shot upside down makes it the bottom of the composed image?


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yes. the reason for doing this is to get a darker sky, which is normally the top part of your image. flipping the camera moves the flash-affected area to the part of the sensor that "syncs". since bottom is the part that's out of sync, put your lit subject at the top and your sky at the bottom.
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