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Challenge: Double Exposure (Basic Editing)
Camera: Olympus E-510
Lens: Olympus 14-42mm f.3.5-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom
Location: Lisboa
Date: Apr 27, 2010
Aperture: F16+F9?
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1m (1/80s? + 6s?)
Galleries: Humorous, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Apr 27, 2010
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This was a hard one to get. Chosen out of about 20 tries.
Setup as follows:
1 - Set E-510 to MF, Image Stabilization ON, Mirror Lockup to 3 second and exposure to 1 minute.
2 - Take a Tamron 300mm F5.6 @F16. Focus on infinity and set aperture to F16. Put on a C-PL filter (to make it around 1.5 stop slower).
3 - Take the kit 14-42 zoom it out completely, set focus at around 0,8m and set aperture to F9.
4 - Switch on a Metz 48 AF1 flash, put in on Manual and step it down to 1/32.
5 - Put your Wilson racket nearby and a black towel too.
All set? Let's go.
1 - Mount the 300mm on the tripod and the camera on the 300mm.
2 - Compose with the moon on the corner.
3 - Put the lens cap on.
4 - Pull the shutter.
5 - Gently pull the cap away from the lens. As soon as it's not touching the lens very swiftly remove and put the cap back. (I guestimate this movement will induce an exposure of around 1/80s)
6 - Remove the 300mm (with camera attached) from the tripod and put it inside the towel.
7 - Change to 14mm lens.
8 - Mount camera back on tripod and point it at a clear part of the sky.
9 - Remove the cap quickly so your hand doesn't have time to expose.
10 - Take the flash and racket, try your best to frame it and then press the fire button on the flash.
11 - You are done! Now it's time to place the cap and towel on the camera so it doesn't expose anything else.
So, was it complicated? Not as much as it looks except for framing. An incredible knightmare as I would almost never get the whole racket to show let alone my hand.
Now some heavy straightning, some levels twitching to hide some sky and a part of a building on the lower left, a bit of HR and then I mirrored the image as it looks a bit more dynamic. Finally a border and that's it!
Fortunatelly I got a very interesting cloud tail for the Moon, but most unfortunately the straightening/cropping process (and a repeated moon on the wide angle shot) forced me to throw a lot away and the trail isn't consistent with the racket placement... :(
I'm not very happy about the result but I decided to submit after so much work to get it done.
Thanks for looking!...
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05/11/2010 03:49:15 AM |
Hello from the Critique Club-
Clever idea for this one- Iâve considered using the lens switch idea for a similar shot with the moon, but have not actually gotten weather to cooperate for what I had in mind (yet). One suggestion that might help you out though⦠for the first exposure of the moon, you should use a piece of black paper/tagboard with a slit in it, which you then swipe down across the lens in order to simulate your own shutter. You can be much more accurate and get better results this way. You can adjust the âshutter durationâ by the size of the slit and the speed you drop it in front of the lens. Then just hold the black card against the lens as you switch. Youâve got a bit of uneven lighting going on with the second exposure, and Iâm not sure if itâs due to the difference in reflectivity of your hand/the handle to the front of the racquet or if your light source was not aligned perpendicular to your subject. Adjusting one or both of these factors will help keep lighting more uniform and prevent your hand from ghosting out. You may also just need to widen the beam by diffusion a bit, but Iâm not too familiar with your flash unit or your subject-flash distance so canât really say. Definitely an amusing subject matter, and I like the take on the challenge. Border is a bit overpowering for me as well.
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05/06/2010 06:56:23 PM |
| A very good concept and the ability to solve the problems into creating the image. |
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05/05/2010 05:50:41 AM |
Man, that was a tough one to pull off!!
Still, GREAT control on the ambient light, as it did not spill everywhere, as it was likely to do.
Congrats on a very difficult shot technically :)
Abraço! |
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05/03/2010 08:32:02 PM |
| The idea is great but visually it is not very convincing for me (might be my bad...). |
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05/02/2010 06:30:44 PM |
| Nice concept - I don't think the racquet is going to be big enough though |
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04/30/2010 12:47:43 PM |
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04/29/2010 02:45:46 PM |
| hard to pull this one off. you ponded an ace. 7 |
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04/28/2010 07:00:53 PM |
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04/28/2010 02:40:34 PM |
| The moon is a little disproportionate to the racket. Original idea and nice execution. |
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04/28/2010 11:10:28 AM |
| ha ha ha I like yours, nice caption to go with a good enough pic |
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04/28/2010 10:34:00 AM |
A good developed idea. Originally with a zest humour.
I give this photograph 10. |
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04/28/2010 09:59:09 AM |
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I don't see that this is a double exposure? |
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04/28/2010 05:27:07 AM |
| An extra point for humor. |
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