-Shot the first photo with a low ISO and a small aperature to reduce noise and to make it sharper front to back to use as the background of the image.
-Without moving the tripod or camera I had my sister hold the shutter button down in burst mode, while me and my brother volleyed a couple times. This is the first sequence of volleying. Me (in the red) is the position I was at the start of the volley. My brother is in the position that he was in at the end of the volley (and subsequently the beginning and end of the burst sequence.)
I used my bro's 20D since it has a faster burst, (5fps) instead of 3fps
-This way you can see how the volley started, the ball positions while it was bouncing, and the end of the volley.
The original background image I shot is what you see in this image except for being desaturated and what I masked around me, my brother, and the positions of the ball.
Aside from the masking, I used Shadows/Highlights, Levels, Hue/Saturation, Selective Sharpening and blur, Resize, USM, Save for Web.
Hope you understand all this sorry about the length!
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it doesn't really look like a progression of time, but more like they are playing ping pong with 5 balls at once. to see the path the ball took, i think would have required more captures in a shorter period of time.
Technical looks good, but you may get voted down for your subject. DPC loves to see emotion, bright colors or very contrast-y type b&w. I'm wondering if you could have played off of a more drastic angle or something. Good luck in the challenge.
Nice idea. Think it might have worked better with a slower shutter so the ping pong balls were leaving longer trails. That would really kick up the sens of motion and passing time. Here it almost looks like the kid shot off five ping pong balls in a row and you got the shot when they were all in the air.
Nice idea. I like the angle you took. To be honest, it's lacking in drama/emotion and I don't get the sense of the speed of the game. I think had you captured a decisive moment in the match it would have had all of those things and you would have had a real contender. Just my opinion though. Still a good shot. Good luck!
This image tells me you have been concentrating on the technicals of these so called time lapse rules, but unfortunately the artistic interpretation element has let you down.
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