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01/06/2013 04:06:05 PM · #1
What is the trick behind this? I dont think it is two shots and merge them and reduce one of the shots opacity. When I look at this picture carefully his fingers are a bit brighter on right side as compare to left side. Also the eyes are popping out from the finger. for me it seems like fall in expert editing category but wanted to know your opinion!

Any direction would help!

here is the photograph!

01/06/2013 04:12:44 PM · #2
No need for expert editing, or even basic. You can easily do this in camera if you have a flash which you can fire manually. In a dark room fire the flash multiple times with different positions and you get this effect. We even had a challenge on this using basic editing: //www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_results.php?CHALLENGE_ID=1202
01/06/2013 04:27:35 PM · #3
This looked like long exposure with the focus on the face to me,bringing up camera to the face and into frame just long enough to make it show up ever so slightly.

Message edited by author 2013-01-06 16:29:46.
01/06/2013 04:30:04 PM · #4
Originally posted by antje1777:

This looked like long exposure with the focus on the face,bringing camera just long enough in frame to make it show up ever so slightly.


That's what I was wondering, too -- but the front hand isn't ghosted, but the back hand is. It would be hard to keep that front hand in the right position while that back hand is moving in and out of the frame...
01/06/2013 04:34:25 PM · #5
I'm thinking double exposure. Long exposure with the rear curtain flash firing after the camera was removed. Looks kind of tough as Wendy stated having no blur in the hands as the camera was removed.
01/06/2013 04:36:14 PM · #6

Unless someone was just handing the camera to him?

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by antje1777:

This looked like long exposure with the focus on the face,bringing camera just long enough in frame to make it show up ever so slightly.


That's what I was wondering, too -- but the front hand isn't ghosted, but the back hand is. It would be hard to keep that front hand in the right position while that back hand is moving in and out of the frame...
01/06/2013 04:42:42 PM · #7
Originally posted by antje1777:

Unless someone was just handing the camera to him?

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by antje1777:

This looked like long exposure with the focus on the face,bringing camera just long enough in frame to make it show up ever so slightly.


That's what I was wondering, too -- but the front hand isn't ghosted, but the back hand is. It would be hard to keep that front hand in the right position while that back hand is moving in and out of the frame...


Joe could be right -- long exposure with a second curtain flash, then he really wouldn't have to have held all that still?
01/06/2013 04:49:23 PM · #8
It's actually a pretty easy shot to do.

Dark room. Flash off camera left and right. open shutter fire flash with camera in front of face. move camera in darkness. Fire strobes again with hand holding camera out of the way, close shutter.

OR combine the two required shots with a layer mask and lower the opacity on the area where his face shows through.

Matt
01/06/2013 04:50:44 PM · #9
The sidebar by the photographer list the equipment he said he used to include photoshop. In the technicals, he says the shutter speed at 1/200. So perhaps he did use photoshop to achieve the effect.

I suppose the OP of this thread could always email the photographer and ask. The photographer seems pretty open...

Cheers
01/06/2013 05:05:09 PM · #10
Read the entire sidebar:

"I couldn't have made the image above exactly as I would have liked if I didn't have a three lightstands, a tripod, two umbrellas, two speedlights, a black reflector, and two SLRs with large lenses, and Photoshop."

Message edited by author 2013-01-06 17:06:03.
01/06/2013 05:21:34 PM · #11
It been awhile. The ghosting usually comes from the back in? That's why I'm thinking rear curtain flash..hmm. Most all my double exposures are long double flash exposures. The black background helps with the ghosting. Equip is key. I used minimum of two flashes with umbrella's. Having pocket wizards helps too. It's fun to play with.

Message edited by author 2013-01-06 17:22:47.
01/06/2013 05:25:00 PM · #12
Originally posted by MattO:

It's actually a pretty easy shot to do.

Dark room. Flash off camera left and right. open shutter fire flash with camera in front of face. move camera in darkness. Fire strobes again with hand holding camera out of the way, close shutter.

OR combine the two required shots with a layer mask and lower the opacity on the area where his face shows through.

Matt


I think it is the latter - there is variance in the skin tone around the edge of the face - it's been floated in as a layer.
01/06/2013 08:37:00 PM · #13
You can not! You have a Canon :P
01/07/2013 02:47:55 AM · #14
Originally posted by Paul:

Originally posted by MattO:

It's actually a pretty easy shot to do.

Dark room. Flash off camera left and right. open shutter fire flash with camera in front of face. move camera in darkness. Fire strobes again with hand holding camera out of the way, close shutter.

OR combine the two required shots with a layer mask and lower the opacity on the area where his face shows through.

Matt


I think it is the latter - there is variance in the skin tone around the edge of the face - it's been floated in as a layer.


me too... i really don't think that is only a shot, i use flashes, but i do not believe in a similar result with only one shot.
01/07/2013 08:28:22 AM · #15
Originally posted by Paul:

Originally posted by MattO:

It's actually a pretty easy shot to do.

Dark room. Flash off camera left and right. open shutter fire flash with camera in front of face. move camera in darkness. Fire strobes again with hand holding camera out of the way, close shutter.

OR combine the two required shots with a layer mask and lower the opacity on the area where his face shows through.

Matt


I think it is the latter - there is variance in the skin tone around the edge of the face - it's been floated in as a layer.
Yeah, if you look closely at the level and consistency of the ghosting, there's a clear gradient of where he's changing the opacity of the layers.
01/07/2013 09:55:10 AM · #16
Originally posted by Venser:

Originally posted by Paul:

Originally posted by MattO:

It's actually a pretty easy shot to do.

Dark room. Flash off camera left and right. open shutter fire flash with camera in front of face. move camera in darkness. Fire strobes again with hand holding camera out of the way, close shutter.

OR combine the two required shots with a layer mask and lower the opacity on the area where his face shows through.

Matt


I think it is the latter - there is variance in the skin tone around the edge of the face - it's been floated in as a layer.
Yeah, if you look closely at the level and consistency of the ghosting, there's a clear gradient of where he's changing the opacity of the layers.

The final giveaway is the lower right corner of the camera (as we see it) where it meets the chin. Over on the right you can see the battery grip, and that fades away to no camera at all where it crosses the chin. So there's definitely layer masking going on here.
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