Now, Paul, don't you feel more free? Pretty involved Photoshopping. Jack
--- On Sat, 11/15/08, PN Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: PN Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Paul comes clean: the Challenger pic > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 5:56 AM > 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. -- 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.
