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Published: 2008-03-08 15:32:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 392; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 4
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This is the full sequence of [link] I like this because it flows, it reminds me of the famous tennis shots that Harold Egerton did back in the 40's with stroboscopic flash [link]It took quite a while to get this shot looking right as each layer needed to be masked closely to enable the layer underneath to be visible. Quite a learning curve. learnt about pin registering now and finally learnt how to use actions, took me long enough!
Nice to finally put the high speed burst mode of the 40D through it's paces in real life too.
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This is impressive, but I would hazard saying that there is almost to much movement, or maybe to many images embedded in to the final one.
Like there are to many images to actually see what is going on?
Slap me down if you think I am wrong it just appeared that way to me.
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Yo
It was purley an excercise to show how many frames the 40D could do.. the link for the final sequence is above. I do agree..
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I think the shuter speed makes something funny, it makes an original effect
I prefer the other sequence of this trick, with less pix, but this one is more original
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how fast was the shutter speed?
and did you use a flash?
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After I've layered the image photoshop has stripped the exif, I would say 1/400 at f5.6.
No flash as it won't recycle fast enough to capture every frame. Need some studio lights! Plus it would be heard to evenly illumate such a long movement.
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i thought you couldnt use a flash, but he still looks pretty lit up....
1/400? thats a surprising lot of frames for a shutter speed that slow
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I'm so good, I didn't have the time to look at the exif this morning, so I guessed, but I was right! 1/400 at f5.6 it was.
It wasn't shot with flash, as you can see he's only light from behind with the setting sunlight, uniformly on each frame.
And 1/400 isn't slow, if there was no lag between frames you could techically shoot at 1/6, almost 6 stops faster than 1/400.
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oh right, because whenever i use less than like 1/1600 i can never get enough frames per second
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Thats weird. probably because you've only got 1 digic II processor on board so it needs faster shutter speeds to keep up with the burst, it was never like that on my old xt though. Strange.
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maybe its something to do with my camera settings, wanna check it out next time we see each other?
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I've done sequences this close before and...shit...this must have taken forever. PROPS
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Yeah took about 5 hours to layer mask every frame. Kept me busy while I'm stuck at home with my broken cheekbone.
Cheers
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