The Perfect Swing

Posted by Daniel (Scranton, United States) on 18 May 2008 in Sport & Recreation and Portfolio.

Double exposrure on this shot one for the clouds and one for the golfer.

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Comments (6)

Stefan from Thiersee, Austria

fine image, good light!

18 May 2008 2:41am

Observing from Chester, United Kingdom

Dan, beautiful shot and framing. How did you get the double exposure?

18 May 2008 7:41am

@Observing: Well there are two ways to do it but the quickest way is to take your raw file in your raw converter of choice and reduce the exposure by -2 to pull in the proper exposure for the background. You then layer mask the two pictures on top of each other and wash out the two exposures for one proper exposure of the background and foreground. The second option is to place the camera in a tripod and bracket the exposre in camera. If you choose to bracket the exposure in camera you will not be able to catch the swing of the golf club in mid air due to multiple exposures being taken by your camera so I would suggest the first option. Part of the beauty of Raw files is that you can change your exposure and white balance after the fact with a decent raw converter. I also used a strobe camera right to pull in some specular highlights on the golfer.

Hope this is helpful

Daniel

Observing from Chester, United Kingdom

Thanks Dan, yes helpful. When I read 'Double exposure' I thought about the problem of movement of the golfer. However, double exposure as in raw file manipulation clears the query :)

18 May 2008 2:04pm