Yesterday I posted some images from the Collegeville Auto Show that were not what I had planned but some people found them interesting. Here is a sequel and I promise not to bother you with any others.
As you may recall, the original intent had been long exposures with ghostly walkers. For reasons best not repeated here, that did not happen, Instead, there were multiple exposures processed in-camera, which created a very overexposed mess. Try as I might, I could not get these images to output a satisfactory tonal range. Way too contrasty and garish.
This morning I realized that the camera had also saved the original NEF (RAW) files of each exposure which were all properly exposed. Having had some recent experience with assembling multiple layers, I took one of the images and assembled it myself. What's shown here is the comparison between the in-camera assembly and my own, which is closer to what I had in mind originally.
Aside from the overexposure issue, which my assembly did not have, the in-camera images were not perfectly aligned. Pressing the shutter must have moved the camera slightly. My assembly was more in alignment evidenced by the clarity of the Jeep name on the car. Secondly, it appears that the camera assembled the images in a logical order (i.e. first shot first) so the people were beneath the cars rather than on top of them. Photoshop made the same error and it looked about the same. I reversed the order.
Lemonaid.
I really like that second one, Andrew, with the people showing more. I'm enjoying and appreciating all your experiments.
Nice to see your progression with this Andrew. I think you will almost always achieve better results if you compile the image manually - you have so much more control over decisions that way.
For a next iteration it might be interesting to take a longer exposure capturing the movement of the people (either with camera on a tripod, or hand-held and masked in as appropriate).
It's great to see you continuing to create outside of the box.
Hello Andrew...What camera make and model are you using? I have had great success making multiple in-camera exposures with my Canon.
Edit: Second photo as I like my Ghost more defined.
I need to bring out the ND's again.
I now shoot with a Nikon D850. On these, I used a 20mm lens.
Have you tried this method?
Multiple exposure: ON
Number of shots: (two to ten)
Overlay Mode: Average
This is the method I use on my Canon R5
Page 62 in the menu guide
https://download.nikonimglib.com/archive5/jdsJk00hGYn105h9Jo845V3d5T83/D...(En)07.pdf
Copy the entire link...some reason the hyperlink won't recognize the URL.
My father taught me that reading the instructions was cheating until after you screwed the pooch, and then it was imperitive so mom didn't find out we took three times as long as necessary while we redid it, usually with a second or third trip to the hardware store for supplies.
I like your image better than the software's. I think these are really kind of fun. I do recommend getting a remote shutter release if you're going to be doing multiple images and layers. But I don't know why I mentioning that to you! You are well becoming an expert at these. These are really nice.
Back in the day when I worked for Beseler (enlargers, color analyzers, and chemistry...all pretty obsolete now), we used to say that an expert was someone who came from out of town. The farther he had to travel, the more expert he was.