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07/28/2006 10:01:06 PM · #1 |
Ok, I can't for the life of me figure out how I did this.
Or, I should say - I know HOW it happened, I just cannot figure out how to reproduce it.
This is ONE exposure. It was taken with a long 6 second exposure at dusk, at f/16 with a low ISO.
I had a mishap with the.worst.tripod.ever (ask BearMusic, it really is a sad wimpy beaten thing). I was experimenting with camera shake on a steep slope and the side leg collapsed. I had been struggling with plain ol' aggravating camera shake all evening, and then the worst happened when I was doing it on purpose!
I DOVE for the camera (the slope was terrible and the water was deep), righted the tripod and it finished off the exposure.
...But my horizons are CLEAN. The tri-level of land is as seen. I love the ghosting effect of the boats, but I can’t figure out why the land isn’t blurred. The cloud is perfect, the land is perfect - and the sailboats have almost the exact effect I had been aiming towards... but I didn’t have to add in the land with a second unshaken exposure in PS. look like this.
I got my shot entirely by accident, and I have no idea how to reproduce it. Any ideas how this happened? I've tried knocking the camera over again, but I can't seem to get it to happen again no matter what I do...
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07/28/2006 10:04:01 PM · #2 |
Perhaps the wind was rocking the boats some...?
Or a gust of wind...
Message edited by author 2006-07-28 22:04:31.
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07/28/2006 10:05:21 PM · #3 |
It's really pretty simple; the only thing showing up as ghosting is the brightest parts of the image: the boats, of course. Not enough time was spent at the "off" position to register noticeably in the dark areas. You don't see the effect in the clouds because they are, well... cloudy...: they are soft and gauzy anyway so there's nothing to offset anything and show the effect.
Now get a new tripod, dear :-)
R.
Edit to add: if you look really close you can see ghosting on the beach on the far shore too...
Message edited by author 2006-07-28 22:07:22.
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07/28/2006 10:17:19 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Now get a new tripod, dear :-)
R.
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LOL, I should have done that the LAST time you told me too. :) I have little pictures of Manfrottos with ball heads all over my office...
I think you have to be right, I guess I'm having a hard time thinking of the boats as *that* much brighter than the rest of the landscape...
Leroy, there was a little bit of drift from wind, it showed in some of the other photos, but not enough to make that dramatic of a south-easterly slide.
I'm baffled I tell ya'...
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07/28/2006 10:18:12 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by notesinstones:
Ok, I can't for the life of me figure out how I did this.
I got my shot entirely by accident, and I have no idea how to reproduce it. Any ideas how this happened? I've tried knocking the camera over again, but I can't seem to get it to happen again no matter what I do... |
Like Bear_Music said it was the brightest parts that the effect centered on. They affect the sensor the quickest. So, after you buy your new pod, set it up so you can quickly traverse the head in the direction you want the ghost/motion blur. Expose for about 2/3 of the total and quickly reposition for the remainder.
Check result, hard to do on 1.8 inch LCD, if it worked, congrats. If not vary the positioning of the shift event within the time of the exposure.
Oh, it will probably have to be exactly the same time of day, same weather conditions, etc.
Good luck! |
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07/28/2006 10:20:31 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by notesinstones:
I'm baffled I tell ya'... |
C'mon, there's nothing baffling about it at all; it's all been explained.
R.
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07/28/2006 10:37:07 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
C'mon, there's nothing baffling about it at all; it's all been explained.
R. |
No, your explanation isn't what is baffling me, that makes perfect sense Whats baffling me is that I managed to get pretty close to the shot I wanted, BY ACCIDENT. I also don't want it to be that simple. Because now I have to wait to get a new tripod to be able to pull it off again! :) I don't doubt your expertise on this at all...
I still can't seem to make it happen again with that much distance, not without multiple flash firing anyway... I have been trying all night with the incoming storms to make that kind of ghosting with some wind bent foliage in the garden, and it is just not happening. I think my background is too lit (wich fits with your explanation completely).
Thanks Fir3bird, your right along with Robert on this and I think you are both right.
*sigh* I need to save up FASTER for that new pod even more now. :)
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07/28/2006 10:55:45 PM · #8 |
| I think the key here is that you have double images, but those images are relatively clear. What I believe happened is that the camera moved, but only once, either late or early in the exposure. One "copy" of the elements in the image is from the shorter portion of the exposure, and the other is from the longer portion. That's why one is more "solid" than the other. |
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07/28/2006 11:00:42 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I think the key here is that you have double images, but those images are relatively clear. What I believe happened is that the camera moved, but only once, either late or early in the exposure. One "copy" of the elements in the image is from the shorter portion of the exposure, and the other is from the longer portion. That's why one is more "solid" than the other. |
In that case should she get the same effect by stacking a second layer in PS, slightly off register with the opacity turned down?
Message edited by author 2006-07-28 23:14:29.
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07/28/2006 11:14:40 PM · #10 |
Just answered my own question:
Before:
After:
I added a bit of Guassian blur to the second layer and moved it off register a bit and turned the opacity down.
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