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<blockquote data-quote="kevy73" data-source="post: 500516" data-attributes="member: 23493">Method....Camera settings:Camera mounted on tripod - shutter release cable.ISO 100, F/5.0, 5.0 second shutter - This can be give or take, you just need about 5 seconds to write the word love... so go with what will give you 5 seconds.&nbsp; If my aperture needed to be f11 then that is what I would have done.Flash on rear sync.&nbsp; SB-900 on manual at 1/16th power I think from memorySo to create the shot.Get the bride and groom in a nice pose which is simple for them to keep as still as physically possible - even though the flash will freeze them at the end, their keeping still stops the ghosting around them.Get the bride to hold a sparkler and light hers... next get your assistant to light her sparkler from the brides and hold them together so 1 main point of sparkle.&nbsp; Count down them for the shutter... 3..2...1 click GO! Your assistant writes the word love as best they can in the 5 seconds... it takes some practice... and you do get some funny results.&nbsp; Once they have written the word, get them to move as far out of the shot - the sparkler trail follows them, but that is easily fixed after, what you dont want is them in frame when the flash fires at the end of the shutter - otherwise you can see them too.&nbsp;&nbsp; I will attach the trials before we got it right... Hope that helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kevy73, post: 500516, member: 23493"] Method.... Camera settings: Camera mounted on tripod - shutter release cable. ISO 100, F/5.0, 5.0 second shutter - This can be give or take, you just need about 5 seconds to write the word love... so go with what will give you 5 seconds. If my aperture needed to be f11 then that is what I would have done. Flash on rear sync. SB-900 on manual at 1/16th power I think from memory So to create the shot. Get the bride and groom in a nice pose which is simple for them to keep as still as physically possible - even though the flash will freeze them at the end, their keeping still stops the ghosting around them. Get the bride to hold a sparkler and light hers... next get your assistant to light her sparkler from the brides and hold them together so 1 main point of sparkle. Count down them for the shutter... 3..2...1 click GO! Your assistant writes the word love as best they can in the 5 seconds... it takes some practice... and you do get some funny results. Once they have written the word, get them to move as far out of the shot - the sparkler trail follows them, but that is easily fixed after, what you dont want is them in frame when the flash fires at the end of the shutter - otherwise you can see them too. I will attach the trials before we got it right... Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]

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