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Trees on a windy day.
Well this was a fun playtime for Sliders Sunday.
The idea and the implementation were relatively simple, but by the time I explain it, you won't be convinced. That will be my fault though in trying to document what I ended up doing :(
And the whole reason for explaining things is to try and encourage other folk to have fun too. Kind of shooting myself with my own rifle...
The idea: trees in woods move a surprising amount on windy days. It's scary looking up and seeing a big beech swaying by ten or twenty feet above your head. Take a series of shots looking up and stack them as a kind of multiple-exposure just to show what goes on.
The implementation: point camera up and hold the shutter in continuous burst mode. This is nine images stacked thuswise.
First mistake: the burst just took over a second according to the camera metadata so not much movement (a tree swaying takes several seconds) - but enough! You can see that the higher thinner branches move more so their patterns are more spread out giving a brushlike effect.
Stacked in Affinity Photo which is really easy. You could also do it in Photoshop.
I actually stacked it five different ways using different mathematical operators (I was just thinking: try them all and pick the ones with pretty colours - AP gives you a preview just mousing over the operator list).
Second mistake: to be honest, that’s overkill. Most of the individual stacking operators produced intriguing results by themselves. I was just trying to make the fun last longer :)
Blended the layers together using different blend modes. Again just keep adding the different stack versions and go for a blend mode that looks pretty or interesting. The Minimum version of the stack gave you nine images of each branch like a rake brush effect which I liked so I emphasised that.
So that got us the basic result. The rest was just finishing.
There seemed to be a problem with the end product - there was a quite a lot of grainy pixelation (inherent in some of the blend modes). So I used a Maximum Blur filter at a low resolution to clump up the pixels a bit. More painterly that way, or so the thinking went...
Then a Curves adjustment in LAB mode to brighten the image and increase the contrast, enhance the colours (the basic strange colours came out of some of the stacking variants, but stacking tends to reduce contrast and saturation too so I tried to counter that).
Then two tweaks I feel naked without: sharpening (with Unsharp Mask) and a vignette (slight dark one here).
And we are done. And I have had fun. And you are exhausted :(
As usual for this group I shall post a link to one of the in-camera originals that were stacked, in the first comment.
Thank you for taking time to look. Especially at one of these Sliders Sundays strange manifestations of captured imagery…
I hope you enjoy it! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[For what it's worth here are the details of the blended layers, all at 100% opacity.
Base layer: Range operator (Normal);
Next layer: Median operator, Difference blend;
Next: Outlier operator, Negation blend;
Next: Maximum operator, Negation blend;
Top: Minimum operator, Luminosity blend. This was the one with that most emphasised all the stripey branches :)
]
multiple exposures with two different plants at three different distances, i really hoped it would come out just like this! an optical illusion!
The Bannockburn centre with its wonderful 3D battle experience - this multiple exposure is of the external signage
Sometimes for someone, some place we just cannot recall from the memory, it's almost vague & fadding out, so I try to use the trees as the subject t, tree with comprehensivce branches , just like the complicated memories in our minds. The bunch are more impressionism towards.
Blue skies and green Duckweed, as seen in Pembrokeshire.
Hand-held. AF. Double exposure.
Take a break at Pelcomb Portraits.
Two versions of one in-camera, four-exposure photo—one with my own preset added, one without—are layered atop one another in each of the diptych's images.