Next you'll be telling me, wrestling is fake.:-) The posted shot is quite a bit different i';d say.
Good job. Dave On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:56 AM, PN Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the original: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8231624&size=lg > > > I didn't attempt to shoot any pans at the race track. Couldn't. The guard > rail was too high to shoot with a lens long enough to make a smooth pan > work. More importantly, the car made only four or five passes, and I had to > concentrate on getting good burnout and launch photos -- which I did. But I > did ask one of the guys to park the car on the track an look straight ahead > as though he were driving. I forgot to tell him to roll up the window:-)). > Doh. > > At home on the computer I gave the car a new window with a semi-transparent > layer of tone. Then I spun the wheels with the radial blur tool. Finally, I > selected the car and the shadow with the anchor point tool, inverted the > selection, and blurred the background. Afterward, I gave a gentle blur tool > tug on the front and rear to give it a bit more of an active, less perfect > feel. > > Many of the pans you see in magazines that aren't part of race coverage are > "shot" this way. Fun with PhotoShop. > > Paul > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
