Kitesurfing Ida Crash

TNTATC · November 18, 2009

This sequence took me around 3 1/2 hrs to complete but well worth the time. My buddy in the picture took a little break after this one haha but not long after he was back on the water. Please comments are welcome. It was a dreary and windy day. More to come on my site. Thanks

torags · November 18, 2009

Jeeze you're really up for a lot of work..

Well you got me going, I'm going to try multiple exposures at the Baja1000 (I'll post unless I screw it up)

TNTATC · November 18, 2009

oh yea for sure I wouldnt have finished it if I wasnt having fun working on it. I'v yet to try the mult exposure shooting. Lookin forward to seeing what you get.

Jacobovs · November 18, 2009

nice job, I wish I had the time and skill to do this.

jm94085 · November 18, 2009

TNTATC...so what was your workflow to put this all together? BTW...nice work!! :-)

Thanks,
John

TNTATC · November 19, 2009

I dont understand what you mean by workflow, I think I do but not sure exactly. Ill just tell ya how I did it. I opened each raw file and equally edited each photo for lighting and contrast. Then I layered each one by one blending in the water and sky and making sure to erase the areas that I did not want to overlap. The background is made up of 4 of the 11 pics just blended where I would make it work. The shots of him closer to me I was zoomed in with my 70-200mmL so I had to pull it back when I saw him start to be boosted. Those I just saved mainly him and the water ditched the houses on those pics. Other than that I just did that for each pic making sure the layer I wanted was in the right order to show up and overlap well. I know there is something in photoshop that does stuff like this for you with landscapes but i'v never tried it, I perfer the manual labor haha. After I had it how I wanted it I flattened the image to make it one, cropped out the pic I wanted and did some more contrast touch ups, the end. I appreciate the comments
Tyler

jm94085 · November 19, 2009

Thanks Tyler...yeah that's what I was looking for in terms of "workflow"...the actual process or steps you went through to create the final product ;-)

ASkip · November 19, 2009

TNTATC wrote:

I dont understand what you mean by workflow, I think I do but not sure exactly. Ill just tell ya how I did it. I opened each raw file and equally edited each photo for lighting and contrast. Then I layered each one by one blending in the water and sky and making sure to erase the areas that I did not want to overlap. The background is made up of 4 of the 11 pics just blended where I would make it work. The shots of him closer to me I was zoomed in with my 70-200mmL so I had to pull it back when I saw him start to be boosted. Those I just saved mainly him and the water ditched the houses on those pics. Other than that I just did that for each pic making sure the layer I wanted was in the right order to show up and overlap well. I know there is something in photoshop that does stuff like this for you with landscapes but i'v never tried it, I perfer the manual labor haha. After I had it how I wanted it I flattened the image to make it one, cropped out the pic I wanted and did some more contrast touch ups, the end. I appreciate the comments
Tyler

Cool picture! I imagine since your friend stands out a lot from the background in most of the pictures the magic wand tool would have made your process a little faster. Wand the sky, select inverse, keep just the guy and paste him into the first picture. Then layer the last photo of the sequence in (or cut and paste judiciously) since it has the crash part.
I've only done it for pelicans diving into the water sequences, but it should work.
Still, it's a fun sequence picture!
Anna

Every Miles A Memory · November 19, 2009

That's a great sequence! Hopefully your friend pays you for all the work you put into it as I'm sure he'd love to have that blown up pretty big on his wall

tday01 · November 19, 2009

Way Cool!
Great Image..Way Cool...

TNTATC · November 20, 2009

Thanks yall he sure did he bout a few 8/10's so I was pretty stoked to see that. I could have charged more but he's a friend and friends always get bro deals in my world haha. I'v tried the magic wand and it just isnt precise enough for me, maybe I use it wrong. I'm a perfectionist so it's tough to keep from getting in deep in the pixels.

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