We really needed to go for a walk after eating (outrageously) a lot. I had the idea of taking a few shots and play around a little bit more with jump/frozen photography.

I should do a dedicated post for this subject really soon, since I have a lot of good shots already. This is inspired by the work of Lois Greenfield, a great photographer I really admire, whom I had the opportunity to meet since she does some photo shoots for a campaign from our agency every year. The technique is quite simple: using an extremely fast shutter speed (1/1500 of a second in my case), you try to catch and froze the “moment”, since there will be no motion blur (or almost). It is quite difficult to catch the right instant in the beginning, but you get used to it and to your camera shutter lag. I just use a “cheap” Samsung camera here, but usually there’s not a lot of cheap cameras with manual shutter override options out there. Below are some examples of a few shots (click them).

Warning: Jumping a lot after eating too much in a barbecue might be dangerous (and messy). Try not to barf on nearby people.

In the end, after all the jumping and fooling around in general, we decided to have some masochistic moments in a kid’s playground nearby. Here’s the short video, obviously, I am the one behind the camera:

By the way, I saw this post from Sonia and I realized she has a great “toy”to do excellent frozen/jump photography. Couple that with the fact she’s a professional photographer and her camera might be ten times better than mine and go further in shutter speeds, and add some lighting gadgets probably (strobe flashes?). She has no excuse to post some interesting shots there…

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