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Creating Motion Stopping Photos of Aikido Competitors

Chris Gampat
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09/03/2015
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Last Updated on 09/04/2015 by Chris Gampat

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All photos by Einar Otto Stangvik. Used with permission.

“When shooting motion, which martial arts tend to bring, I figure you can go one of two ways: Show the motion as a blur, or freeze it entirely – stopping bodies in weirdly wonderful positions. Anything in-between, half frozen / half moving, tends to look sloppy. That’s my opinion, though, and others may disagree.” says photographer Einar Stangvik about his vision for a recent shoot he did featuring Aikido practitioners. His work has been featured here before as we have showcased his liquid vortex imagery.

He describes it as beautiful, fluid motion that is fast paced and tough to capture. And his setup was quite intensive. It included:

  • One 420 watt/sec Elinchrom ELB-400, with a 150cm indirect octa as key light. Full power.
  • Two Nikon Speedlight SB-910 with a white reflective umbrella as fill light. 1/8th power.
  • One SB-910 with a diffusor hat for the background. 1/16th power.

Why this much light? Stopping fast motion partially has to do with a fast flash duration. What this means is that even if you set your camera to a two second shutter speed but fire the flash once and that flash has a fast duration, then it will freeze to speedy motion. It’s part of the idea behind the TriggerTrap flash adapter.

Einar states that timing the exposures was really simple to do despite the fast moving actiong happening so quickly. More of the images are after the jump.

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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