High Speed Photography

Doing this type of high speed photography is something that I have never done before and this is useful information to help me if I decide to re-do this shoot.

For high speed photography the room needs to be dark so when the flash goes off the image keeps in focus and not appear blurry.

The kit that is needed for this is a DLSR camera, put on manual setting, tripod, flash gun, two fill lights on stands with soft box and a dark backdrop.

The camera settings should be:

• The shutter speed should be about 1/125
• The aperture should be F8 or above (make sure there is a wide depth of field)
• Try the ISO at 200 but if its too dark put it up but only do that if you can't do anything else with the other settings as it adds noise to the photos.
• The camera should be on manual focus as auto focus is too slow to catch the action.