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Wow, 66 excellent photos. I'm blown away by the number of entries - it's been a while since I've been able to put an entry forth, but are there more people competing now?

What a gorgeous, creative set of photos. Congratulations to each and every entrant.

Virginia

Many of these are amazing! The one called #13, "Come play with us, daddy" is boggling my mind. How do you do that without editing anything. If I ever saw that photo I would say it was edited that way. Kudos to the artist that pulled that off. Is it some kind of reflection? Either way, simply amazing!

Originally Posted by Dirquist Many of these are amazing! The one called #13, "Come play with us, daddy" is boggling my mind. How do you do that without editing anything. If I ever saw that photo I would say it was edited that way. Kudos to the artist that pulled that off. Is it some kind of reflection? Either way, simply amazing!

Many digital cameras allow you to do the digital equivelant of a double exposure.

Originally Posted by Dirquist Many of these are amazing! The one called #13, "Come play with us, daddy" is boggling my mind. How do you do that without editing anything. If I ever saw that photo I would say it was edited that way. Kudos to the artist that pulled that off. Is it some kind of reflection? Either way, simply amazing!

It was a long exposure shot.

Originally Posted by richtersl It was a long exposure shot.

In that case congrats on getting the youngins to sit still long enough

So many great entries this time. Sooooo hard to pick just 10! There are way more than 10 really nice pics that I like a lot. Congrats everyone on a superb round.

Sherry

Originally Posted by red_zone Wow, 66 excellent photos. I'm blown away by the number of entries - it's been a while since I've been able to put an entry forth, but are there more people competing now?

Off the top of my head I think the last 3 or 4 contests all had 30 or 40 odd entrants. Im assuming this one had more because you could take a picture of absolutely anything, whereas in the others sometimes people can't come up with and idea or arrange to take a really good photo in time.

There were many good entries this time. Amazing work!

Originally Posted by Dirquist Many of these are amazing! The one called #13, "Come play with us, daddy" is boggling my mind. How do you do that without editing anything. If I ever saw that photo I would say it was edited that way. Kudos to the artist that pulled that off. Is it some kind of reflection? Either way, simply amazing!

Thanks Dirquist for the nice compliment! :) And I agree, there are so many great entries to choose from this time; It's gonna be tough to narrow to 10. Richtersl is right, it's a long exposure shot - and very easy to pull off with pretty much any camera that can be set to more than about a one-second shutter speed. (Depending on how quick your kids are :) )

I put the camera on a tripod and dialed in a good exposure and white balance for the ambient light at a 2 second shutter speed. In this case I chose f/8 at ISO 200 and Tungsten WB. Then I put the kids in the frame, told them to stand still and don't smile, and snapped the photo using the flash, with a remote shutter release. In this case I used a SpeedLite that I held over my head and pointed down at the kids, but there's no reason it can't be done w/ an onboard flash. If you set a 2 second exposure and force the flash, I'm pretty sure most cameras default to popping the flash at the beginning of that 2 seconds. Sooooo, I instructed the kids to stand still until they see the flash, then RUN!!! into the playroom (the dark room on the right of the photo).

So basically what happens is the camera records the kids standing there for the first split second, then during the same exposure after the kids ran away, it is also recording the walls and trike and everything that is behind the kids. That's how they look like ghosts.

Here are a few photos of my setup:











Also...my kids aren't really that creepy :)

Thanks for sharing your setup James. It was a awsome idea and perfect execution.

And I also agree there are some great shots entered. Was hard to pick favs!

Thanks, James! P.S. My kids are about the same age as yours and were delighted with your shot. Just plain delighted.

i do wish i can pick more than 10 photos, they're all awesome!

James, thanks so much for sharing. I enjoyed your picture and even more knowing the technique. Of course Im not sure I could pull it off but it neat to know. Its kinda like a magician telling how to do a magic trick, it may take away slightly from the amazement but it is never less amazing seeing how it is done. It still takes creativity, skill and artistic ability.

Originally Posted by CHANDLERJA Thanks for sharing your setup James. It was a awsome idea and perfect execution. And I also agree there are some great shots entered. Was hard to pick favs!

Thank you for sharing your technique James - absolutely fantastic!

Congratulations to you for the idea and execution, and congratulations to your wonderful kids, for doing it so well :)

Announcing the Top 5 Images for DSS round #79 ([SOOC] Open study)

It was really exciting to see a great many new participants this round. Welcome and thank you for all for playing.

A big congratulations goes to jwear for first place:
The Poppy meet up


The following photographers are now qualified to participate in the next Mega-Challenge.

jwear
dlscott56
Johnloguk
cromwell
WhatSheSaw

Congratulations to everyone who participated in submitting as well as commenting, Thank you!

Winning PM's will be sent out ASAP.

Jwear, congratulations on capturing this shot, overcoming initial frustrations with entering it, and winning the challenge! Way to go!

Congratulations to the others in the top five for their awesome shots and to everyone else who participated in this challenge! It was fun to see so many great entries (and hard to choose only 10).

congrates jwear and all the runner ups! Great shootin'!!

Congratulations, jwear! that really was an awesome shot! I'm glad you got the kinks out, so you could post that one successfully. And yes, so many great ones ....really hard to choose.
Once again, it was fun!