I presume this would be photoshop....
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How would you take this shot?
Surely to go slow enough (or a high enough shutter speed) to keep the car sharp you'd loose the motion blur on the wheels? Presumably you would take a shot of the car stationary or moving with a high-ish shutter speed, wave your magic wand at it in photoshop and blur the background (or paste the car into a suitably blurred background), then do something similar with the wheels?
It sounds simple in theory, I assume it's not?
Surely to go slow enough (or a high enough shutter speed) to keep the car sharp you'd loose the motion blur on the wheels? Presumably you would take a shot of the car stationary or moving with a high-ish shutter speed, wave your magic wand at it in photoshop and blur the background (or paste the car into a suitably blurred background), then do something similar with the wheels?
It sounds simple in theory, I assume it's not?
Edited by Chris71 on Thursday 31st January 09:38
Doh! Why didn't I think of that - I'm aware of the use of rigs, but stupidly assumed they were only used when not in shot.
That animation is superb by the way - very interesting to see how some of these shots are turned into the finished product. I keep trying to doctor some of mine thinking I can see a nice simple way to improve it, but almost invariably the results are worse than the original!
Edit: Dean, is the final shot on your website with the black TT done the same way?
That animation is superb by the way - very interesting to see how some of these shots are turned into the finished product. I keep trying to doctor some of mine thinking I can see a nice simple way to improve it, but almost invariably the results are worse than the original!
Edit: Dean, is the final shot on your website with the black TT done the same way?
Edited by Chris71 on Thursday 31st January 10:33
Chris71 said:
How do you remove the boom - it it possible just to take a similar shot without it and merge the two? I appreciate you must be a hell of a lot better at photo shop than I am, but trying to reconstruct the parts of the image obscurred by the rig must be a nightmare if done freehand?
Cloning tool is how I've always removed things from images. Even free-hand you can get great results. You just need to be patient and do very small areas at a timeMilnerR said:
Chris71 said:
How do you remove the boom - it it possible just to take a similar shot without it and merge the two? I appreciate you must be a hell of a lot better at photo shop than I am, but trying to reconstruct the parts of the image obscurred by the rig must be a nightmare if done freehand?
Cloning tool is how I've always removed things from images. Even free-hand you can get great results. You just need to be patient and do very small areas at a time
Takes a lot of practice and I have been known to spend over 4hrs shopping rig shots. You have to be carefull of where you take the shots and look out for backrounds that might be hard to PS out.
A lot of people take multiple images and stitch them back together, this can produce pretty damn good results but I feel they're a tad fake?
trackdemon said:
Dean, just had a look @ some of your BMX stuff - loving it! The lighting gear for some of those must be very powerful - strobes + car battery?
Hey Trackdemon,Thanks very much. I'm using vivitar 285's with a massive 6v battery supplying each one, very ghetto set up but it works an absolute treat. I can go weeks without having to re-charge the batteries and the best thing is........they cost £6 each
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