Pieces
I am a huge fan of Alexey Titarenko. His masterpiece City of Shadows inspired me to try this myself and this is the first result. I have some other tryouts but of course nothing that compares to Titarenko's. For a very good interview, have a look here.
My approach: take 20 photes on a tripod with different shutter speeds (min 1/4 up to 1 or 2 seconds) of a place with many people (I took the Christmass period of 2018/2019). This means you have to have a remote that allows you to change the settings on your camera. The hardest part is however the post processing:
* develop all photos using the same settings (develop 1 and copy paste these settings to the others)
* export in full res and in non destructive format
* import in (in my case) affinity photo and create a stack (very easy: "Create new stack")
* then you choose a stack operator: average, median, mean, min etc.
Up to here all all rather easy. Then you should (and I didn't do this):
* per photo(s), select areas that are blocked or not. This way you can hold or push certain areas (for example remove people that stand still the whole time and appear in the final result)
It's precisely this last step that consumes the most time. It's still on my list to continue but for moments where I don't have other inspiration :) (and I don't like to sit in front of my computer).
Pieces
I am a huge fan of Alexey Titarenko. His masterpiece City of Shadows inspired me to try this myself and this is the first result. I have some other tryouts but of course nothing that compares to Titarenko's. For a very good interview, have a look here.
My approach: take 20 photes on a tripod with different shutter speeds (min 1/4 up to 1 or 2 seconds) of a place with many people (I took the Christmass period of 2018/2019). This means you have to have a remote that allows you to change the settings on your camera. The hardest part is however the post processing:
* develop all photos using the same settings (develop 1 and copy paste these settings to the others)
* export in full res and in non destructive format
* import in (in my case) affinity photo and create a stack (very easy: "Create new stack")
* then you choose a stack operator: average, median, mean, min etc.
Up to here all all rather easy. Then you should (and I didn't do this):
* per photo(s), select areas that are blocked or not. This way you can hold or push certain areas (for example remove people that stand still the whole time and appear in the final result)
It's precisely this last step that consumes the most time. It's still on my list to continue but for moments where I don't have other inspiration :) (and I don't like to sit in front of my computer).