Creative Shutter Drag Technique. Using flash and ambient light for cool Glamour shots and Portraits

Shutter drag or dragging the shutter is a flash photography technique. You can do it with speedlights or monolights and it can be used in a studio or on location depending on the circumstances and the results that you're after. We all learn very quickly that when using electronic flash - the light falls off rapidly and a single speedlite tends to make for a very dark background. When I was a newspaper photographer, I learned that I could brighten the dark backgrounds by setting my exposure for the subject and the flash and then lowering the shutter speed to allow more ambient light to be recorded. This flash sync technique works because when you’re using flash the shutter speed has no effect on your flash exposure because the flash fires at a speed much faster than your camera.

In this episode I am going to show you TWO images that use shutter drag - but I am going to add some drastic camera motion to the mix for a really cool outcome.

Basically what's happening in all of these shots is that the shutter opens and begins recording the ambient light. The flash fires and lights the subject for an extremely brief period of time - that's how you are able to get a sharp image of the subject and then the camera continues to record ambient light until the shutter closes.

You may have seen other tutorials about using shutter drag for outdoor portraits - but here is a way to use that same technique creatively - in a studio setting for glamour shots or portraits.

As always - the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination.
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