On the past couple of cycling events, I’ve been playing with different flash methods to see what I come up with. A month ago, I tried a speedlite speedtrap of sorts and most recently, I tried panning at my little XT’s max sync speed (1/250) and a little over that on manual. I managed to get a few things, but had plenty of motion blur. When I moved above max sync, I got a lot of daylight and nothing from the flashes. After sweating a while out by the roadside, I decided to give in to the “H” button on my 430EX.
I’ve been snooping around on “teh interwebs” to see what I could come up with and found a whole lot of Nikon FP this or SB CLS that, but nothing really that I could use for Canons….until this morning. M.D. Welch and Syl Arena have covered it quite nicely and show the results of what they’re discussing. (Thanks for the lesson fellas!)
The results from hitting the H button were immediate. I was sitting just off of the edge of the pavement, so panning as they passed was a little tough. Once I moved up to 1/1250, the blur disappeared and I was, well, off to the races.