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 01/01/2008 12:24:48 PM · #26
I cannot enter because I haven't paid, but here is one I just tried today. Not sure if it meets the guidelines. I used sports setting, continuous focus and just did a bunch of images directed on the bird feeder. This blue jay accomodated me by doing exactly what I was looking to do. Then I combined the three photos, but I didn't combine the entire parts of the images. I just took sections of each image and combined them into a composite, using various opacities, magic wand, erasing and spot healing. Not sure if this is legal. Anyway, it might get some folks thinking about ways to present this.


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 01/01/2008 03:19:30 PM · #27
Here are some examples I found. (I think!) Here.
 01/01/2008 03:38:31 PM · #28
can anyone explain or point to tutorials that show how to merge images for this? How do you keep the overall image from looking ghostlike or overexposed?
 01/01/2008 03:46:50 PM · #29
Originally posted by briantammy:
can anyone explain or point to tutorials that show how to merge images for this? How do you keep the overall image from looking ghostlike or overexposed?


Time lapse, as I understand it, does not have to be long exposure shots. It compromises many shots that are layer, one on top of the other.
 01/01/2008 03:52:37 PM · #30
Here is the best example on this site from owen with an excellent "how to do it" in the comments

01/01/2008 04:05:26 PM · #31
Originally posted by keegbow:
Here is the best example on this site from owen with an excellent "how to do it" in the comments



thanks for the link. I didn't see the "how to" but I did find another shot interesting.



I think this might be what they are looking for in the next member challenge. I still don't know how to put them together though.

01/01/2008 04:09:16 PM · #32
Originally posted by briantammy:

thanks for the link. I didn't see the "how to" but I did find another shot interesting.



I think this is what you are looking for.

Originally posted by owen:
Wow great to get a 7. Some people asked how it was done so here are the details.

The three shots were taken from a tripod of the 1 jump. 3 in 1 second by consecutive shooting. The 2nd and 3rd shots were laid over the top of the first shot and cut away where the black lines are. Then the borders were put on a layer over that and cleared where the underlying image had to show through.
Here are some outtakes as well.




01/01/2008 04:22:16 PM · #33
thanks judi. I think my problem is in photoshop though. I've tried to blend images but they seem to degrade one another.
 01/01/2008 04:35:46 PM · #34
Originally posted by JunieMoon:
I cannot enter because I haven't paid, but here is one I just tried today. Not sure if it meets the guidelines. I used sports setting, continuous focus and just did a bunch of images directed on the bird feeder. This blue jay accomodated me by doing exactly what I was looking to do. Then I combined the three photos, but I didn't combine the entire parts of the images. I just took sections of each image and combined them into a composite, using various opacities, magic wand, erasing and spot healing. Not sure if this is legal. Anyway, it might get some folks thinking about ways to present this.


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Glad I didn't end up paying to enter this shot. I would have made a big mistake. Guess it doesn't do what is meant with the challenge description.
 01/01/2008 04:55:00 PM · #35
Originally posted by JunieMoon:
Originally posted by JunieMoon:
I cannot enter because I haven't paid, but here is one I just tried today. Not sure if it meets the guidelines. I used sports setting, continuous focus and just did a bunch of images directed on the bird feeder. This blue jay accomodated me by doing exactly what I was looking to do. Then I combined the three photos, but I didn't combine the entire parts of the images. I just took sections of each image and combined them into a composite, using various opacities, magic wand, erasing and spot healing. Not sure if this is legal. Anyway, it might get some folks thinking about ways to present this.


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Glad I didn't end up paying to enter this shot. I would have made a big mistake. Guess it doesn't do what is meant with the challenge description.


I think the idea was correct because you have done what the other photogs above have done. I just think the quality of the photos wsan't there to start off with. The bird would need to be crystal clear to pull it off. Otherwise you are heading in the right direction.
 01/01/2008 05:01:37 PM · #36
Originally posted by briantammy:
thanks judi. I think my problem is in photoshop though. I've tried to blend images but they seem to degrade one another.


You'll need to use layer masking to get things to work out the way it has in th examples in this thread
 01/01/2008 06:47:06 PM · #37
Originally posted by Monique64:


I think the idea was correct because you have done what the other photogs above have done. I just think the quality of the photos wsan't there to start off with. The bird would need to be crystal clear to pull it off. Otherwise you are heading in the right direction.


Thanks for the helpful comment.
 01/01/2008 09:44:57 PM · #38
Greetmir: I believe that the cartwheel shot in my tutorial shot would be legal except for the white lines I added between shots. In the rules change thread, scalvert said a shot of someone running through the frame would be legal. Also, Kirbic said a child going down a slide would be legal.

For the many people who asked "how do I stack multiple shots?" Here again is my tutorial.

It's very similar to the idea of the long jumper example above, but with considerably more detail.

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 01/01/2008 10:01:30 PM · #39
Great work, Jeffrey, Thank You.
 01/01/2008 10:45:03 PM · #40
Originally posted by levyj413:
Greetmir: I believe that the cartwheel shot in my tutorial shot would be legal except for the white lines I added between shots. In the rules change thread, scalvert said a shot of someone running through the frame would be legal. Also, Kirbic said a child going down a slide would be legal.

For the many people who asked "how do I stack multiple shots?" Here again is my tutorial.

It's very similar to the idea of the long jumper example above, but with considerably more detail.


this is what I was looking for. thanks, i'll give it a shot
 01/02/2008 08:52:24 AM · #41
Perhaps a little too advanced for my editing skills, but my lame-o entry is in...
 01/02/2008 11:47:53 AM · #42
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 01/02/2008 11:50:41 AM · #43
Originally posted by pawdrix:
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exactly what this thread needed...More Cowbell!!
 01/03/2008 08:29:23 AM · #44
I've been wracking my brains for a time lapse idea...I came up with one but I can't do it because I don't have a pet, so I'm throwing it out here for anyone else to use...

I liked the idea of a dog jumping to catch a brightly coloured ball, maybe even set against a gorgeous mountain scene (so many of you live in amazingly beautiful locations, and have dogs). The shot I had in mind is a view of the ball arcing across the air, with the jumping dog catching it in it's mouth as the "key" frame.

Back to the drawing board for me though - hope that's of use to someone :)

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 01/03/2008 08:59:18 PM · #45
The way I see the Time Lapse Challenge is this. The rule set doesn’t allow for this type of photography as the rules are written. In the old days of film we would do a “Double Exposure” in camera. Take a shot over and over again without advancing the film. Unless I don’t understand my EOS 20D, I can’t do that. Am I wrong? Will it do that? If so please tell me how? Nowadays we accomplish the same thing using Photoshop and multiple images. I would take multiple shots, layer one over the other and get rid of what I didn’t want. That simple.

Reading the other postings on this challenge it would also seem that using “Bulb” or “Long Exposure” isn’t the way to go either.

I did a shot for this challenge but I’m pretty sure it violates the rules. Or at least as I understand them it does.

I fully understand the reasoning behind the rules. This site wants to see “Photographers” and NOT Photoshop experts. However for a challenge like “Time Lapse” I think a rule set should apply allowing us to use all of our skills. After all, if a client of mine wanted a shot that was “Time Lapse” I would pull out all of my tools to get it done. The client wouldn’t care how I arrived at the end result.

I hate to do this but take a look at my profile and you’ll see the photo I was going to enter. It’s the “Lady In Red” photo. Your comments are welcomed on the photo as well as the above opinions.
01/03/2008 09:16:39 PM · #46
Originally posted by apashack:
In the old days of film we would do a “Double Exposure” in camera. Take a shot over and over again without advancing the film. Unless I don’t understand my EOS 20D, I can’t do that. Am I wrong? Will it do that? If so please tell me how? Nowadays we accomplish the same thing using Photoshop and multiple images. I would take multiple shots, layer one over the other and get rid of what I didn’t want. That simple.

Reading the other postings on this challenge it would also seem that using “Bulb” or “Long Exposure” isn’t the way to go either.

Either method would be appropriate here. You could cover the lens or use multiple flashes on a long exposure to do it in camera, or stack a burst of images in Photoshop.

Message edited by author 2008-01-03 21:17:58.
 01/03/2008 09:40:20 PM · #47
Can you do multiple exposure in camera? My Fuji does multi's.
 01/03/2008 10:16:43 PM · #48
Originally posted by Kelli:
Can you do multiple exposure in camera?

Anybody can. Set a long exposure in a dark location and hit the lights or uncover the lens for each exposure. It takes some work, but there have been some excellent entries posted with this technique. You can find many in the portfolios of labuda and graphicfunk.

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 01/04/2008 05:08:31 PM · #49
i havent read all this thread but i thought i'd stick this in here just in case other ppl dont fully understand the time lapse rules like me .. originally it was entered in the time lapse challenge, i've withdrawn it and now its going in our 'where you live' side challenge ..

the image you see here is totally unposed ..
tim was moving towards where they tee off, bending down and then after hitting the ball ..
i thought it satisfied the challenge .. i was wrong ..
pam Frisca wrote back from the site council to tell me that wot i've done opens the door to images like kiwiness's 'all my brothers' (included in my photographer's comments).. i dont fully agree with that ruling .. but then i dont fully understand the concept of time lapse photography ..
i would'v thought that if you show an object(s) moving thru the frame with multiple exposures then it would satisfy the challenge .. (whether its a natural phenomena, like the moon moving thru the heavens for example, or a person moving thru a scene .. )


01/04/2008 05:27:07 PM · #50
Originally posted by roz:
i havent read all this thread but i thought i'd stick this in here just in case other ppl dont fully understand the time lapse rules like me .. originally it was entered in the time lapse challenge, i've withdrawn it and now its going in our 'where you live' side challenge ..

the image you see here is totally unposed ..
tim was moving towards where they tee off, bending down and then after hitting the ball ..
i thought it satisfied the challenge .. i was wrong ..
pam Frisca wrote back from the site council to tell me that wot i've done opens the door to images like kiwiness's 'all my brothers' (included in my photographer's comments).. i dont fully agree with that ruling .. but then i dont fully understand the concept of time lapse photography ..
i would'v thought that if you show an object(s) moving thru the frame with multiple exposures then it would satisfy the challenge .. (whether its a natural phenomena, like the moon moving thru the heavens for example, or a person moving thru a scene .. )


Having read this I suspect that half the entries already submitted will be DQ'd. Where is the moon when you need it?
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