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michswiss
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Ok. I'm not sure if I'm going to enter the challenge, but I thought I'd share my experiment from the day. My take on street watercolours.
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For what it's worth I think I'm going to continue with this combined with something else I'm working on.
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You say these are derivative. That (and the images themselves) imply that the effect you've created is not simply the "in-camera" motion, or the dual shot, dual layer technique blur/glow technique. But...
I really like what you've done and I'm curious about just what your processing is. Would you mind sharing your steps?
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This is essentially all done in camera. I've experimented a lot with motion blur both at night and day. But mainly with a static camera position.
What this challenge inspired me to do was to put the camera into motion along with the subjects. All these shots were done in daylight with what I'll call a Landscape shooter's setup. Wide to normal angle lens (17-35 or 24-70) and stacked 8-stop neutral density and polarising filters. The shot I entered was 35mm, 5 secs, f/22, ISO 400. The objective was to get to a 1.5 to 6 second exposure on day lit sidewalks with as much contrast as possible. I also really wanted to avoid light trails as much as possible.
Taking the shot is basically about selecting the setting and waiting for a good subject to walk past and then following them from behind or walking backwards in front. It would certainly be easy enough to take a friend out with you to experiment to your heart's content.
The trick is to keep them essentially in the same spot on the frame for the duration of the exposure which becomes a lot about understanding your focal length and general aiming technique as it's pointless to look through the viewfinder while the mirror's up.
All post was done in Aperture to bring out the colours and textures. Each exposure was different so there's no particular technique for this.
Hope this gives you guys something to play with.
These were definitely among the most interesting of the entries... and your explanation just adds another reason for me to consider getting the ND filter(s) I've been lusting after. I really liked the one you entered, and included it in my voting!
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