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This weeks theme of Motion had my wheels spinning as I envisioned a dusk time shot of trains and cars downtown, maybe with some panning thrown in for good measure. Apparently life didn’t like that idea so I was stuck at home wondering what to do, when I remembered a shot of rolling dice I had seen on flickr over a year ago, and I decided to try it out for myself.
The lighting was a two light set up with a LED flashlight on a tripod at camera left to illuminate the “roll” and at camera right a bare YN-560 at 1/16 power and zoomed in to 70mm to freeze the dice. Freezing the action after the roll meant using rear curtain sync so that the dice would motion blur before the flash fired.
The lens was a 50mm f/1.8 at f/13.
I shot a few without the game board, but ultimately thought it told a better story with the game in the background. You can see a few of the other shots below:
Those funky yellow dice are from the Millennium edition of Monopoly and have a crazy roll to them.
Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have a chance to try this technique out for yourself sometime, it was fun trying to time the shot and drop. I eventually got pretty good at rolling them to stay within the frame, I also would highly recommend playing with rear curtain (2nd curtain) sync as it really opens up the creative possibilities with flash.
Happy Shooting!
Howard
New D7000 user 
Very interesting. I am trying to figure out how to set up the rear curtain sync on the sb700 I have. This is one area, the speedlight, I admit I nothing about.
Averil I looked at the SB700 manual and I couldn’t find any mention of what to do to set up rear curtain sync on the flash itself, i know that you set it up on the camera (D7000) by holding the “flash” button on the left side of the camera (the little lightning bolt) and rotating the main command dial until you see the LCD read “Slow” or “Rear” I think the SB700 will automatically detect which mode you are in and work accordingly. If you are using iTTL that may have an effect on it, I’m not sure since I only use manual flashes right now. I hope you can give it a try I’d love to see what you come up with.
Nikon has introduction to flash page here: http://imaging.nikon.com/history/basics/24/01.htm
Thanks as always for taking the time to look and comment!
Howard
Thank you for your response, I will try that. I have been reading through the sb700 manual also as well as looking at youtube videos. I have an event coming up where I have to use a flash so I am frantically learning before it comes. I will be following newspaper people around at a 2 day conference and taking candid shots so that they will show it on their big screen at the end of the conference. Should be fun but also a little intense.
What a terrific technique, perfectly executed here Howard! LOVE that effect! You are terrific with this technique, really well done!
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