So, as of late, I've been doing a lot of multiple exposures, aligning them to make a panorama, surrounding each layer with a colored stroke (usually yellow,) and selecting as separate layers a moving car or some other moving element and placing those layers on top of the panorama, and then surrounding the entire thing with a content-aware fill.
I've followed that same process here, but I only retained one of the underlying layers (the center one) so the moving element (in this case, a car) seems to be moving into, through, and out of the frame. The selections are not as clean as I would like and the border strokes did not work the way I wanted (operator-itis) but mostly everything came out as planned. You may notice that the cars' shadows disappear at the borders. This was on purpose to help accentuate the moving in and out of the frame.
Harry says to say hello. He'd do it himself, but in addition to not being able to type he was at the doggie dentist on Tuesday and now has nine fewer teeth, and frankly, the resulting course of drugs (antibiotics and pain medicine) has left him not interested in doing much except napping at my feet. He is exceptionally good at that.
P.S. Revised 2023/03/24
I revisited this today. Luckily I had saved a version with all the layers so I did not have to recreate them. I reordered the car layers to better illustrate coming and going. This meant that I had to clean up the edges of those layers that had previously been hidden under another car and were subsequently exposed. I removed more of the mailbox markings (the original had the street address painted on it.) The stop sign is now its own layer above the cars. I regenerated the borders including a yellow stroke and a red one and the content-aware fill. The cars now sit on top of the strokes and fill instead of going through them.
It is surprising how complicated this all was. Dinesh's advice to label all the layers is very good advice. Even so, we are talking about a full afternoon's work.
I think is a stronger edit.
Tell Harry "Greeting and Salutations," and give him a big scratch behind his left ear for me.
I like the single background in the primary and multiple in the frame layer. I still have not tried multiple exposure layering...probably fear of achieving nothing. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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I like your 'thinking out of the box'. Great work !
This is a neat idea, Andrew - the car moving from outside the boundary into the scene then back out again. I liked the original originally; but then after you posted the second one, I feel I like it better mostly due to the reordering of the cars which does better demonstrate a sense of coming/going, and for some reason the yellow adds something appealing to it all. I hope Harry is doing much better this weekend.
He's doing much better. Thanks.