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Feb 27, 2004
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Hey, I have been seeing, for some time, multiple exposures like of snowboarders, mx’ers, etc… and am wondering how to do it effortlessly(ha,ha). I have tried photo stitch, I realize I could cut and paste the boarder images onto the original, although I’m sure as powerfull as PS is their must be an easy way that I just don’t know about. The magazine pictures I have seen have been all exposed evenly, the main body and the multiples. Tnx in advance TAG
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Feb 27, 2004
‘Multiple exposures’ could mean a multitude of things. Your intent is not clear to me. What do you want to do?

Mathias
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r_harvey
Feb 27, 2004
…and am wondering how to do it effortlessly(ha,ha)

You could use multiple images on layers. I would think that you would be willing to put some effort(ha,ha) into learning an application that just cost you $600.
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tag
Feb 28, 2004
OK Mathias, what I mean by multiple exposures is in the film days we would open the shutter several times to expose different things onto the one piece of film. In this case I am wanting to, with the camera held still on a tripod or handheld panning, shoot let’s say 8 or 9 images of a snowboarder flying after leaving a jump. To do that with film would leave the background either blurry or the background image greatly over exposed. I tried using canon’s program photo stitch which works great for panoramas but in this case worked poorly. I know I can cut and paste the 8 or 9 separate exposures of just the boarder onto the first image layer. Any clearer? And Dear r_harvey
I wish I could have been payed for the countless hours spent learning PS, and $600.00, I wish that was all it cost.
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r_harvey
Feb 28, 2004
Then you should need no help in compositing things.

Thank you, call again.
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John_Slate
Feb 28, 2004
you’re it.
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Rob_Keijzer
Feb 28, 2004
open the shutter

Isn’t this a contradiction in term?
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Jay Jhabrix
Feb 29, 2004
open the shutter
Isn’t this a contradiction in term?

Mmmmm not really… you open the shutter to expose the film… 🙂

Cheers…

JJ
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Jay Jhabrix
Feb 29, 2004
Tag… no easy way… you’ll have to cut out the image(s) of the snowboarder or whatever and paste into new layers on one base picture….

JJ
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dave_milbut
Mar 1, 2004
of course once you get a good layout it may be possible to actionize it.
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Fred_Nirque
Mar 1, 2004
tag,

Shoot a sequence using a very wide-angle lens (120 degrees to a circular 180 degree "fisheye" if necessary – you can correct the distortion using PS or third-party filters later), from a viewpoint very close to and facing the middle of the action, with the camera mounted on a tripod. I’d suggest at least 3-4 frames per second, but you can work out the rate by timing how long it takes the subject to go from one side to the other vs. the number of images you want. Do not move the camera during the sequence. Use a very fast shutter speed to freeze the action.

The background will thus remain constant, with the moving figure in different positions as it traverses the field of view in consecutive exposures, and in turn the pic will remain constant in exposure.

Then cut & paste each figure onto the first exposure in layers, a rough selection only is needed with feathered edges unless consecutive images overlap – then more work is needed drawing on your countless hours of learning PS for the techniques necessary to make this easy.

Locally blend each layer, flatten & there it is.

There is no "easy" way, and you won’t do it with amateur photographic equipment.

Fred.
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Terrat
Mar 1, 2004
What if you cut out your action figure and [Ctrl + J] him to his own layer. Then Use the move tool to click and [Alt] to duplicate many of the same figure and line them up one layer below the original cutout. Next select them all and free transform them for a near to far perspective. [Shift + click] to select all the figures and squeeze the box inward at the far side.

Then make a gradient to turn them into a movement trail or maybe use a lightly transparent mask and apply a motion blur to it and fiddle with transparency.

I just thought the whole thing could be created in PS. They do it with cars, so why not people? I’m sure there’s better ways of doing this…maybe I should have a few more cups of coffee and I’ll think of some.

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