Vita Rara: A Life Uncommon

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Hi, you've reached the website of Mark Menard, Freemason, developer, businessman, photographer, motorcyclist and all around nice guy.

The main joy in my life is Sylva, my loving partner and friend. (You will see plenty of pictures of her. Also check out our site.) My professonal career is running a consulting firm concentrating on business automation and custom software. I enjoy software development, motorcycles, photography, dancing, freemasonry and travel.

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Mark

Experimental Dance Photos

Submitted by: Mark on Sun, 2007-06-17 19:47.
Categories: Photo Gallery

I've been taking photos of dancing for some time now. While at a wedding a few weeks ago I snapped a photo of the couple dancing and had a slow shutter speed. This resulted in a wonderful image, with some motion blur, but other parts of the photo being sharp. At a recent dance night I sought to duplicate the effect. It takes some patience, and getting just the right shutter speed. I haven't mastered the skill yet, but here are a few attempts at it.

Here's the photo from the wedding that got me started on this:

I realize now that there was someone else's flash that went off during this exposure, and that contributes to the sharp areas. Something I'll have to experiment on with off camera flash.

Here are the images from dancing: