How was this done. - DPChallenge Forums

04/20/2008 08:13:30 PM · #1

Aside from "long exposure" ect. How was this picture created. Did they use a stool and then remove it, or photoshop or what?

Floating Photo

04/20/2008 08:16:05 PM · #2

I'd guess a double exposure and some photoshop. Great shot though!

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/20/2008 08:32:56 PM · #3

Could you do this with just one shot. Long exposure and a chair maybe?

gaurav

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

04/20/2008 08:42:01 PM · #4

Amazing photograph, I do love to do that kind of photographs.
Can any one teach me how to do that?

Man_Called_Horse

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

04/20/2008 08:55:30 PM · #5

Chroma Key, or what you may know as green screen, or blue screen, or red screen.

inshaala

Canon EOS-7D

Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon

04/20/2008 08:58:53 PM · #6

You can see clone marks in the space below her dress... also you can see a bit of "healing flare" (dont know the technical term) but look at the funnel shaped dark bit coming from the bottom left of her dress possibly her foot.. that is typical of using the healing brush or patch tool too close to a hard contrast edge...

So i am guessing a cloned out chair and a bit of masking. I would have probably taken two shots, one with the girls stood on the chair/stool and one with the same lighting, camera position and exposure without anything there, and then just mask the "space" in from the empty shot and make her slightly invisible...

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Tirasco

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/20/2008 08:59:12 PM · #7

She was standing on a box placed under the dress to make her look taller, then a "shadow" was painted on the ground in front of her

Probably way off

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

04/20/2008 08:59:31 PM · #8

Originally posted by Jason_Cross:

Could you do this with just one shot. Long exposure and a chair maybe?

Double exposures CAN be achieved with one shot, just look at the majority of work in

graphicfunk's portfolio.

vxpra

Pentax K100D

04/20/2008 09:01:02 PM · #9

My vote is for double exposure, given the slight transparency of her face. IMO, there is also some obvious photoshopping where a stool would be.

togtog

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

04/20/2008 09:12:35 PM · #10

Just a thought, she might not be floating at all, but rather standing on the floor with the light from the front, no shadow would be cast, and what you believe to be the shadow from her may be a shadow from something else or even not a shadow at all. Very nice shot, makes me a little dizzy looking at it. However I do see the photoshopping below her. Now the challenge to everyone is to shoot the same sort of image, without the use of photoshop! GO!

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Fromac

Nikon D7000

Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED

04/20/2008 09:22:55 PM · #11

She held her breath until she floated off the floor.

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

04/20/2008 09:53:17 PM · #12

I would like to try something like this, but I don't have the gear. I have a D50, so no double exposure for me.

good_ham

Nikon D200

04/20/2008 10:44:29 PM · #13

Originally posted by vxpra:

My vote is for double exposure, given the slight transparency of her face. IMO, there is also some obvious photoshopping where a stool would be.

This cannot be a double exposure in the traditional in camera sense or the background would show clearly through the black dress. In fact, you'd hardly see the black dress. Given the transparency I'd guess two shots were composited together and some bad photoshopping was done around her feet.

jjusa

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

04/20/2008 10:46:57 PM · #14

Ghosts only appear for some people.

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

04/20/2008 11:45:03 PM · #15

Originally posted by Jason_Cross:

I would like to try something like this, but I don't have the gear. I have a D50, so no double exposure for me.

As the wise old Jedi master Yoda once said: "Always with you it cannot be done.."

The d50 has a bulb feature and you have a lens cap, or paper... Much can be achieved with your camera sir. :)

levyj413

Nikon D7100

04/21/2008 12:38:21 AM · #16

Originally posted by Jason_Cross:

I would like to try something like this, but I don't have the gear. I have a D50, so no double exposure for me.

You'd be surprised what can be accomplished within a single frame (and the last two were done with a point and shoot).

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Nikon AF Nikkor 28-85mm 1:3.5-4.5

04/21/2008 12:49:06 AM · #17

Originally posted by KelvinC:

Ghosts only appear for some people.

There is always one wise guy...lol

electrolost

Nikon D200

04/21/2008 12:54:52 AM · #18

shadow looks like spray paint and she is standing on a canvas my guess

04/21/2008 02:00:14 AM · #19

I was hoping that it was more cool than just photoshop. I can photoshop things all day, but I was hoping for a purely photographic solution.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/21/2008 02:29:38 AM · #20

Jason,

Read how

graphicfunk shot these...

And one of my own...

It is a lot easier than you think to accomplish and you don't need a bunch of fancy equipment to achieve great results.

gaurav

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

04/21/2008 12:51:04 PM · #21

Is that possible by my Canon PoweShot A610?