On May 21, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > Very nicely done, Paul. Care to elaborate on your technique at all? > Sure. The car was parked on a road in front of some trees. I shot it with the DA*60-250 at f5.6, 1/250th, with a B&W circular polarizer on the lens, adjusted to eliminate most reflections in the sheetmetal. After converting it, I outlined the car with the pen tool, then selected it with a 2 pixel feather. I inverted the selection and applied a motion blur to the background. Then I retouched any edges where I saw any artifacts from the selection process. I also had to eliminate some ghosting in front of the car. The PhotoShop tool seems to ghost a bit fore and aft. Once I was happy with the basic background blur, I selected the areas that could be seen through the windows and blurred them the same amount. Next, I did the reflections in the windshield, changing the direction of the motion blur to conform to the slant of the gas. I did something similar to the reflections in the roof. Finally, I selected the shape of each tire with the pen tool and applied a radial blur.
Voila! High-speed pan. The main giveaway is the the reflections in the car. They should be a little soft on the edges. But I like the way they look well defined. It's all fantasy in any case, so a better fantasy is a better option. Could I shoot it this well? It would be tough to get that much background blur in a useable exposure. The best way to do it for real would be in reduced light at twilight with flash to help freeze the car. Paul > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Friday, May 21, 2010, 5:05:11 PM, you wrote: > > PNS> From yesterday's work stuff: > PNS> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11034957&size=lg > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
