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SnapLocally

I took these on Saturday night:

Erbeman

Man you rocked the exposures on these!

SnapLocally

Thanks!

ckaspar

If you don't mind me asking, how did you do that?

SnapLocally

It wasn't too complicated- I stacked the layers and erased what didn't belong, merged the layers when I was done.

ckaspar

Thanks for the info, trying it now!

SnapLocally

Yeah, no problem.

It's not something I do often, but I figured it would be appropriate for this shot as I didn't think posting all 4 pics would have the same impact.

ckaspar

Did you plan to do that with those shots? I shoot a lot of R/C car racing and would like to implement some effects like that just because it looks cool and has an awesome impact. I took three pics that I took at a race recently where I kind of hand stitched them together and duplicated this effect however if just did not turn out exactly right. There was panning involved in my shots and it looks a little tweaked.

I am going to setup a tripod and a wide angle lens parallel to a jump this weekend and see what I can some up with.

Thanks again for the info.

SnapLocally

ckaspar wrote: »

Did you plan to do that with those shots?

Here's a little back story:

I shot a few wrestling events on my own just to see how I'd do. Before wrestling I had shot dozens of boxing, kickboxing, and MMA events, so figured it would be similar. Not exactly.

First, I needed to shoot much wider than traditional Combat Sports due to the nature of the action. Second, this venue is very dark. I have bright primes, but the wrong focal length. That meant I'd be using my Tamron 17-50 using a flash. The only problem was I only had a pop-up flash. It would've been fine had I only taken a few shots here and there, but now I was waiting for the flash to recycle and missing opportunities. I decided on the Speedlite 430EX II as my 7D could use it's pop-up flash to wirelessly trigger the Speedlite, in effect giving me more creative opportunities, but also because I tested it, and found I could fire off 20 (or more) flashes in rapid succession- a task impossible with the built-in flash- and it lets me keep up with the action at aprox 5fps. So, to answer your question, no, I didn't exactly take those shots with the intent of merging them, but I did choose my current set-up for the speed I knew I'd need, allowing me to take shots like that.

ckaspar

Sounds good! Thanks for the insight! Ya, the majority of what I have been shooting for R/C has been outdoors so the flash is not an issue but I fear the fps of my XSi might be. I am looking into a 7D in the future so I will see. I will be doing some playing at a track this weekend. You will see a post from me on here in less than a week attempting the technique you presented here.

So as not to hijack your thread anymore, I will PM you the merge I did yesterday to see if you can hand down pointers.

Thanks again.