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post #1 of 19
8/9/10 at 10:17pm
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I figured we should have a thread with all the fun and freaky things made in Photoshop.
Be it something you've made yourself, or something cool you found.
Just state where you found it if that's the case, so credit goes where it's due.

I just made this hard to look at little gem since I had been lacking in the photoshopping.
with a special appearance by Werewolf Girl.

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post #2 of 19
8/10/10 at 4:18pm
Extremely psychedelic! I don't really do anything that crazy, but I've been using PS lately to create some sequential action photos. They're pretty easy to create given that you have an SLR camera (don't know of a point & shoot that has a rapid shutter capability).

Basically, you just stand in one place and keep the camera framed on one area - meaning don't follow the person with the camera. Try to frame where the action is going to happen. Then just fire off a bunch of shots as the action happens.

Once in PS, drag all of the photos onto one pic, and then double click on the final layer that says 'background'. Select all of the layers, then go to Edit>Auto Align Layers. After that, it's just a simple matter of masking out what you don't want in the photo. Pretty easy to do, only take me about 15-20 minutes for each one, sometimes as little as 5 minutes if they're not laying over each other like in the last photo...

Cassie jumping a wake, only to crash face-first


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Scott diving off the wakeboard tower of the boat


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Cassie again going down a slip & slide


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Nicole jumping off my roof


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Pretty cool idea for a thread. Interested to see what others are going to post!
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post #3 of 19
8/10/10 at 4:21pm
Fun!
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post #4 of 19
8/10/10 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by myers87
Look who found a new home.
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post #5 of 19
8/10/10 at 4:52pm
Maybe just me, but the image isn't showing up, Trevor.

Thanks WayDen, I've always been curious about how those were made. I've had some ideas, going to have to give it a shot now.
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post #6 of 19
8/10/10 at 7:16pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7 View Post
Thanks WayDen, I've always been curious about how those were made. I've had some ideas, going to have to give it a shot now.
No problem. If you run into any trouble, feel free to ask for any help.

Just remember to keep the camera in one place, not to pan with the action. If you do, the auto align feature will distort some of the photos to get them to line up correctly in a 2D space, sometimes wildly distorting them (some minor distortion is inevitable, but also not noticeable to anyone but the person who sees the originals).

I made that mistake with my first attempt, which came out alright for a first try but just involved a lot more work to complete it. I actually had to align a couple of the shots myself, and you can see some of the seams, especially on how different parts of the grass go in & out of focus...



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post #7 of 19
8/10/10 at 7:25pm
That's some great stuff, WayDen (especially the jump to the pool shot).
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post #8 of 19
8/11/10 at 2:42am
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Yeah those are very neat, I must try it with something.
I also quite liked the jump in the pool shot!
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post #9 of 19
8/20/10 at 12:05am
I've been doing photo editing in Photoshop...dodging, burning, hsl/vibrance, cloning, etc.

I bought the most expensive light meter I could find because I thought it would help me get into grad school or maybe find a job as a PA.

Then I realized I didn't know how to use it so I spent a ton of money on a medium format camera system to practice exposures.

Now I have boring photos and no money, but I know how to use a light meter (and a little photoshop) at least:







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post #10 of 19
8/20/10 at 12:05am




If you're on the board of directors at a film school or something please let me in.
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post #11 of 19
8/20/10 at 5:07pm
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Originally Posted by Policar View Post
I've been doing photo editing in Photoshop...dodging, burning, hsl/vibrance, cloning, etc.

I bought the most expensive light meter I could find because I thought it would help me get into grad school or maybe find a job as a PA.

Then I realized I didn't know how to use it so I spent a ton of money on a medium format camera system to practice exposures.

Now I have boring photos and no money, but I know how to use a light meter (and a little photoshop) at least:
I'm not much into landscape shots, but really like the 1st & 3rd ones. Bet they'd look pretty great blown up on a canvas or something...

As far as a light meter goes, I've never used one. I went to a Joe McNally workshop a couple of months back, and he said that the in camera meters were so good nowadays that he's stopped carrying one to his various shoots. I use the one in camera, but use the histogram on the LCD even more.
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post #12 of 19
8/20/10 at 5:45pm
Yeah, there's zero need for a light meter if you shoot digital unless you're using strobes or something. If you shoot raw it's almost pointless.

Even with most film-based slrs you're fine with matrix metering if you shoot c41 and you can get away with it with e6 if you know what you're doing and even if you don't you can bracket.

My camera doesn't have a meter, though, so I have to do everything manually.
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post #13 of 19
8/20/10 at 7:26pm
I shoot RAW & use strobes. But I just fire off a couple of shots, and tweak from there. Usually don't need more than 2 shots to get it right, unless I'm using more than a couple strobes (which I haven't done more than a couple of times).
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post #14 of 19
8/11/11 at 7:17am

Woke up two hours before my alarm, couldn't get back to sleep. Had to do something, and this was the result:

 

oldy_twins.jpg

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post #15 of 19
8/11/11 at 9:22am

Damn... 

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post #16 of 19
8/11/11 at 2:11pm

That's pretty damn phenomenal.

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post #17 of 19
8/11/11 at 2:17pm

Thanks! I'd had the idea a while ago, but it took a couple of false starts.


Edited by Hammerhead - 8/13/11 at 1:05am
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post #18 of 19
8/6/12 at 1:26pm

Quick and dirty, but once I got the idea I had to:

 

700

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post #19 of 19
8/6/12 at 1:32pm
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Quick and dirty, but once I got the idea I had to:

 

700

 

700

 

Brilliant.

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