Yesterday’s post reminded me of this set of photos that I combined last year. At the time I was pondering how you might show action. To be honest, I was tired of using blur to show action and was looking for something different.
Here I combined four photos at varying opacity of a skateboarder to try to show the sequence of events that led to the skateboarder crashing and burning.
Enjoy.
Camera settings: Nikon D3, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 at 100mm with shot at ISO 200, f/4 and 1/1,000th of a second.
Post Processing:
Lightroom—Set white and black points, added mid-tone contrast.
Photoshop—combined four photos and used auto align feature and then mask off everything but the skateboarder and his skateboarder in each of the early layers and reduced the opacity of the early layers to 50%, 65% and 80%.
This really gives the viewer a feel for the action here. Even though you used a large aperture and the buildings and people are blurry, I wish you had been able to position him against a plainer background. I do like how no other skateboarders are around to compete with him and I like the shadow you also captured. This is a nice change from motion blur, though I can't believe I actually wrote that when I love blur so much!
ReplyDeleteTotally different. Good change.
ReplyDeleteTed
Awesome job on this one Larry. Love the concept of showing the action in a unique way.
ReplyDeleteNice job doing something different.
ReplyDeleteMel
This is a nice technique. I myself must try it.
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