Gallery 329: Sparkling Wind
ohhh yes, I am obsessed with these light, flowy fabrics for my photos. Tried a few new ones and found this shiny, super light lining fabric. Wow, it's awesome! So you can see me pulling the fabric through the air over and over and being entranced by the shiny waves and flows. In combination with my silver Zentai from Kantiliu just simply superb. Well, uh... the suit is very thin and very tight fitting, a bit too revealing in some pictures maybe :-) Anyhow, I really like it!!

Only the flash duration of my flashes I do not understand. Does anyone know about electrolytic capacitors and xenon discharge? I have a feeling the shortest flash duration doesn't get below 1/100s or so. It should be much shorter than that. The flashes have 300Ws and usually run at 1/32 - 1/16 power. Shouldn't under 1/1000s discharge times be possible without any problems? I've been dicking around with this for a long time and it remains a mystery to me. Sometimes a longer exposure time and some motion blur can be good, but I also want to be able to freeze motion with very short flash exposure times. Ambient light is not the issue, its the same when using the flashes in completely dark environments. Any hints welcome!

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Costume: Silver Zentai [Kantiliu]
Camera: Nikon D300. Radio trigger for camera + flash.
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm
Lighting: Hard flash from top left + top right