Good plan, well executed! Very nice image. I would say you were fortunate that there weren’t more people around - the single ghost works well. I am amazed that you were able to brace the camera that well for a series of shots.
stan On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just starting to get my photos from my trip to London sorted out. > I did a lot of experimenting with long exposures and/or multiple > exposures (some in-camera and some in Photoshop), both with and > without HDR processes. I'm trying to work time into my photographs > rather than capture a "decisive moment" like HCB. > > This first shot was one that I planned for and which turned out even > better than I'd hoped. I set up in a tube station with the intention > of combining multiple show-shutter-speed shots of the people on the > platform with a train coming into the station. Lacking a tripod, I > braced the camera on something solid (I forget exactly what), zone > focused and waited for people to walk in front of the camera and for a > train to arrive. Unusually and unfortunately there were few people > coming through the station at that time but I did get two shots that I > thought would work well together. I combined both images in Photoshop, > converted to B&W (which took a lot of fiddling with the color sliders > to get looking "just right") and added some noise. Here's the result: > > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7de01316+19a.jpg > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > -- 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.
