Any camera can do it, but you will need 9 skier friends that aren't afraid of landing ontop of each other.

 

A single-frame multi-exposure shot like that one just isn't possible. The first shot would be correctly exposed for the jumper and for the background, but thereafter each subsequent shot would be over-exposed by a factor of X2. You'd end up with just a badly over-exposed print which didn't achieve the reult you wanted. Strobe shots in the dark are a different matter. With a strobe flash firing rapid very short flashes, the moving subject will be correctly exposed and 'frozen' each time. With the action taking place in the dark, each flash has no effect on the background providing it's sufficiently distant from the subject to be not illuminated. Often strobe effect shots are taken against a black cloth background anyway to eliminate that problem.

You'd be asking a lot for that jumper to make his jump in the dark though!

As Beig says the shot is 9 or 10 separate exposures. The moving jumper from each shot has then been cloned into the first frame using Photoshop or any number of similar programmes. You'd be amazed how very quick and easy it is to do that. A matter of mere minutes is all it would take to produce this effect with no painstaking tedious work involved.

The days of producing hit and miss double exposures in the camera are long gone. You now have total control over the process with Photoshop etc.

With regard to the camera required to take the sequence it just needs to be capable of taking a rapid quick succession of shots which rules out all but high-end digital cameras. Many conventional SLRs should be able to tackle the job though.

Anyone who's really keen on photography who hasn't started to get to grips with digital image manipulation is missing out on a whole lot fun. If for example you own any sort of digital camera, it would be a simple matter to take a picture of half a dozen people all around your car cleaning it, with each one being you, and the results would be perfect with no overlapping and all the shadows in the right places.

I've been thinking about doing a post with instructions on just how to achieve that effect. If anyone is interested I'll be happy to do so once Christmas is out of the way.

 

photoshop....a pic of the guy leaving the jump, and a pic of the guy entering the water.

actually the more i look at the pic...the more cool i think it is...i too would like to know how to do it.



Matt

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DJ Qube
[B]Any camera can do it, but you will need 9 skier friends that aren't afraid of landing ontop of each other.

 

As stated, this would be a cinch in Photoshop. You can't do simple overlay frames since the exposure would be totally off, but you can use masks or blending options.

Get the Canon EOS-1D. 8fps digital, fastest of any digital out there. The picture looks like 9 frames, probably over no more than a 2s time span at the most.

 

You don't need masks or blending tools, it's far easier than that!

The technique is simple ...first open image 1 in Paint Shop Pro (PSP) or Photoshop (PS) Use Corel if if you have it.

Open image no2 which is the jumper in the second postion, alongside picture No1. Select the Clone Tool (It's called Rubber Stamp Tool in PS) Right click on the second picture with your mouse. The important thing is that you start with your right click from some small detail in the picture that you can start on in each subsequent picture. If all else fails try to select the extreme corner of the picture.

Now move your mouse over picture one, hold down the left mouse button and you begin to paint picture 2 over the top of picture one. There'll be no difference of course until the second jumper mysteriously appears in the first frame. You must start cloning into the first picture by holding down the left mouse button initially, at the same spot you located when you pressed the right mouse button on the first picture. That's why it's important to select as tiny a detail within the picture as possible to start your cloning from. If the background isn't a perfect register with the underlying one then just 'undo' and start again being more careful about selecting a starting point. That's the only tricky part of the process.

When jumper 2 is painted in, close pic 2, open pic 3 and repeat the process till you've clone in each jumper. You'll need to set the size of the Clone Tool fairly small so that you don't overlap any of the figures. Couldn't be easier and it's guaranteed perfect results.


Try opening any two pics you have in PSP whatever, and just getting a feel for how this tool works, it basically just transfers pixels from one picture to another, or of course you can use it within a single picture for all sorts of effects. If you set the tranparency value of the tool to high you can produce 'ghosty' effects. You're just limited by your imagination!

 

speaking of sneaky digital photography, I just read an article about a new optical sensor...it uses three layers of silicon to emulate a 3-emulsion film Boy howdy, talk about high resolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Unabageler
[B]speaking of sneaky digital photography, I just read

 

Add a few jumpers if you like!

 

So now you know how it's done, here's me on the left with cousins Bart and Clyde. Anyone with a 3 seater sofa and a tripod can take these 3 pics. This one was done few years ago on a crappy low res early digital camera.



So come on, I see a load of these 'Photoshop Help' threads, let's see a few of you having a go and using a little imagination. I'll be tickled pink to see some results.