How to take ghost like moving photo.

[haka1a]

Hello,

I'v been struggleing with this idea.
Point would be that the person in the photo is weaving his / her head that it would look like a grazy or paranormal stuff.
Weaving would be from back to forward and left to right that between those it would seem blurred motion and at the end of every corner it would be sharp image somewhat.

Here's the problem!
I have tried different lenses and shutter speeds but it isen't the type i want.
Its mostly just get blurred images where you dont get anything out of it or it doesn't show the hole motion.

Is it even possible to get that many movements and still get somewhere sharp pieces of image without photoshopping or combining multiple photos?

[Ginger Pixie]

You would need a long shutter speed and if you want anything sharper than a blur, you will need flash going off at some point during the movement - either the beginning or the end.

[haka1a]

So built-in flash won't work here? Cause there is 3-4 stops that i want sharp or was there a chance that built-in flash goes of multiple times, haven't used flash too much.

[Ginger Pixie]

By built in do you mean pop up? It will work, but it probably won't be great. If you had some off camera flash set up it would probably work better.

I'm not sure how you could get it to go off multiple times, unless you used a flash gun and fired the test button a few times during a long exposure? This is pure speculation... it might not work...

[haka1a]

Yes i meant pop up flash. Is the pop up flash too weak for this if i just run around and use flash with another camera ( in this case my second hand camera fujifilm hs-10 ) while the dslr is taking long shutter time shot?

[Ginger Pixie]

Try it... I'd be interested to see your results.