Well, I'll be . . . pretty clever, Paul. Well done! Cheers, Christine
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Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:56 AM
Subject: Paul comes clean: the Challenger pic
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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
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