{"id":127,"date":"2008-05-05T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T07:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-01-03T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T22:46:01","slug":"world-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/world-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"world in motion …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This image\u00a0from\u00a0the recent photo-session with Amy and Nick in Manhattan received a number of\u00a0comments and questions about the technique. \u00a0The basic camera settings for\u00a0several sequences of images here, were 1\/20th (at f8) and 1\/10th @ f11.\u00a0 The image above was\u00a0one of a sequence at 1\/20th.\u00a0 But there’s more to it …<\/p>\n

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Amy and Nick were enthusiastic enough to work with me in several times\u00a0running out to the middle of this busy Manhattan road whenever the light changed and pedestrians crossed.\u00a0 The idea was, as seen here, to have them sharp against a blur of people and traffic.\u00a0 I set my camera to a slow shutter speed, and used a stabilized lens\u00a0to compensate.\u00a0 This was essential in getting\u00a0the couple sharp in the image, and not have camera shake at such a slow shutter speed. \u00a0Since we had to work fast, using a tripod would’ve been\u00a0far too cumbersome.\u00a0 ( Besides, I never bring a tripod with me on a\u00a0portrait shoot\u00a0like this.)<\/p>\n

The effect of the people and traffic blurring was unpredictable, and I therefore simply opted to have my camera blast 10 frames a second (at such a slow shutter speed).\u00a0 This way I made\u00a0sure I got enough images every time Amy and Nick stood still in the road.<\/p>\n

(I should note that the images were initially edited for exposure, contrast, saturation, white balance, etc, as part of my normal raw workflow.)<\/p>\n

Here is an image where I liked how the people and traffic blurred around them, but I wasn’t\u00a0 happy with the other person’s face being so dominant in the middle.\u00a0 It was a distraction.<\/p>\n

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\nWith this image, I liked Amy’s hands and there was also a pleasant blurred area between\u00a0them …<\/p>\n

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… so I decided to combine the two images in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

I started off by layering the two images, and then tried to get as good a positioning of them in the combined image by transforming the one image.\u00a0 I checked this by changing the opacity of the one layer. It would be simpler blending the two images, if\u00a0the position of my\u00a0subjects (Amy and Nick) corresponded fairly closely between the two images.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd then I used a layer mask on the one layer and blended the two images.<\/p>\n

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\nFor the\u00a0final image I added a slight soft-focus effect on the background, and also increased the contrast ever so slightly.\u00a0 I also brought down the saturation on the green jacket so that it is less distracting.\u00a0\u00a0 And there’s the resulting image – quite successfully showing the energy of New York,\u00a0but still\u00a0leading your eye to\u00a0the couple.<\/p>\n

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