Slow shutter but sharp image portrait

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I have a quick query.
I was looking through some pro shots that were taken on a family holiday. I spotted one I liked and checked the file properties.

He used a nikon d80 f5.6 S 1/6 handheld with a flashgun. These were nightshots too.
I thought if the shutter speed was that slow they would be blurry.
Anyway it was similar settings on all the photos , how did they turn out so good and sharp?
 
The flash means the exposure on the face was effectively the length of the flash pulse rather than 1/6. The extra 1/6th would have given the background a bit of interest and detail if it was dark.

Take your camera when it's dark, use a pop up flash and set the shutter speed to anything slow. As long as the persons face is dark when the flash is not on, then it will only capture their face when the flash goes off.
 
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Nerves of steel. ;) WHS
 
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The flash would have frozen the subject and the long shutter speed for background exposure.
 
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macca1980 said:
I thought if the shutter speed was that slow they would be blurry.
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Other have explained how it works but just pointing out that you can hand hold a camera at 1/6 it really depends on how long the lens is.
While it is not ideal, they don't have to be blurry - 1/6 of a second is still a short amount of time in the big scheme of things :)
 
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