This is a variation on a theme already seen here from other posters – blending of several photographs together. I have to say that 3 kids are more than enough for any sane person, and these photographs could be the stuff of nightmares…….. :lol: :lol:
Focus was disappointing, but I just don’t feel ‘at home’ with the 1DS II and in any event I was rushing these due to low light and the kids wanting to play rather than tolerate me. I wont even mention some of life’s undesirables who were hanging around making comments…… :(
It is really simple – camera on a tripod; several shots; then place one image on top of another; use lasso tool to draw round the part you want to put in the original image, and then click on the mask icon. Voila!! Repeat several times with the other images.
I showed the kids a photograph in a magazine of what I hoped to achieve, before we went to the park. I think this helped give them some enthusiasm for what I was trying to do, but overall these are just ‘test’ shots where I was practising my ability to do the task – but I would like to put some real effort into it and produce a sharp, well exposed series for prints. For various reasons this was rushed, and the kids themselves were getting verbal abuse from some barely teenage undesirables hanging around in the area.
Needless to say the kids think the photos are cool!