DPC Freeman Patterson Photo Impressionism Study Group

Back Again..with stacking images

2006-01-19T23:03:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry to have let the group falter, but I've been busy, plus my traveling in December. But tonight I took some time to finish an earlier experiment with multiple exposures. My weakness in this area is that my knowledge of using "layers", layer masks, and blend modes in PS is limited to what I've learned by trial and error: and that doesn't cover stacked images. But tonight I found a good tutorial on how to do stacked images, and I think it worked pretty well with my experimental target.

This fall I took a lot of tripod based shots of my maple tree, as it was in it's bright yellow bushy stage, and losing leaves. It was windy, and so I thought it would be nice to capture the leaves rustling and falling.

Tonight I combined about 8 of these images as an experiment, using the tutorial at: Image Stacking.

Here's the finished result, where I've cropped so as to to allow maximum viewing of the "impressionistic texture" gained by the stacking:

But the full size version isn't bad either. Here's the full frame, again, finished by sharpening and then softening:

2005-11-13T21:54:00.000-08:00

For the sake of comparison, I went for the same "effect" using my own special favorite motion blur technique. Here is the result. This is done using the same motion I used for the multiple shots, but in this case, I did it in a long exposure:

To me, this is more inline with my own "impressions", at least in this case. But clearly they do produce different effects, and I've only just begun to explore the new technique, and this motion blur one is my "usual".

Hmm...maybe I'll try a combination with multiple images.

Comments welcome, as usual.

FPPI - Assignment 1

2005-11-13T19:54:00.000-08:00

This is the first experiment corresponding to multiple image capture/combination.

In this case, I took 7 pictures, rotating and zooming the camera while I had it on rapid fire.

I combined them in PS CS, where each later was successively more opaque from top to bottom.

I used a base image consisting of the ground cover below this bush which was in the throws of its final fall colors.

After adjusting opacities, I flattened. Then I copied the flattened layer twice: and combined them with multiply to get contrast. I also added a levels layer, adjusted, a curves layer, adjusted both for contrast and to bring up the greens.

I am not really satisfied with the image, but I will move on to my next attempt.

Comments are welcome.