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How can create the effect of this image?
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How can I create this effect?
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Tom Mann
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You take a short movie using a camera with a fast framing rate (ie, extreme slo-mo mode), and then, instead of playing back the individual frames sequentially, as a movie, instead, superimpose the interesting frames onto one image.
To estimate the required framing rate, for the sake of an example, let's assume that the club head is going 100 mph (which is ~150 feet per second). The spacing between the club head on successive frames appears to be about 3 inches, or 1/4 of a foot. Using the formula, distance = velocity X time, one can estimate the time between successive frames at about 1.6 milliseconds or 600 frames per second.
On the other hand, if this photo had been taken at night instead of during the day, I would have said that it was probably done using an open shutter and a specialized flash unit that can repeat at the same rate, ie around 600 times per second.
HTH,
Tom
To estimate the required framing rate, for the sake of an example, let's assume that the club head is going 100 mph (which is ~150 feet per second). The spacing between the club head on successive frames appears to be about 3 inches, or 1/4 of a foot. Using the formula, distance = velocity X time, one can estimate the time between successive frames at about 1.6 milliseconds or 600 frames per second.
On the other hand, if this photo had been taken at night instead of during the day, I would have said that it was probably done using an open shutter and a specialized flash unit that can repeat at the same rate, ie around 600 times per second.
HTH,
Tom
DanGuerrero
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I actually have 138 photos (frames) of a baseball player swinging a bat. However, I'm not quite sure how to merged them all together showing all the frames like in the photo above.
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Hi there....
That image was created from a video clip - taking each frame and lowering the opacity of all except the final frame (golfer in final follow through position).
In PS each frame is assigned on a layer in sequence.
If I were to do this, I'd increase the opacity of the first frame a bit more and make the final frame more dominant. Right now, the final frame's opacity has been lowered too. I'd minimize the clutter caused by the golfer's swing but maintain the golf club's swing motion sequence.
That image was created from a video clip - taking each frame and lowering the opacity of all except the final frame (golfer in final follow through position).
In PS each frame is assigned on a layer in sequence.
If I were to do this, I'd increase the opacity of the first frame a bit more and make the final frame more dominant. Right now, the final frame's opacity has been lowered too. I'd minimize the clutter caused by the golfer's swing but maintain the golf club's swing motion sequence.
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Don't forget on each new layer to mask out all other parts of the image to show the motion coming through consistently not fading in as he swings forward!
Tom Mann
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What framing rate did you use? Did you have a "high speed shutter" option available on the camera that you used? If you don't have the latter option, there's a good chance that each frame will be blurred, destroying the effect.
Tom
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Be it from a video clip or camera , the work process remaiins the same. Tho depending on the source material you have and the final scene you envision, it may require a bit of pre-planning and "choreography" to pull it off.....
Here's a very rough and dirty example to give you an idea of the process involved and what you may need to do to simulate your sample...
This was taken from a short video clip (I'm sure you recognize this SW scene), imported into CS4 at the time to extract the frames into layers and processed in PS7 as my CS6 is so demanding on my cpu..... (what a mix...). I've edited down the frames further for this example.
edited source material:
Frame 12 is the start of the sequence and layer opacity is at 100%. Each of the following frames had been edited to remove the background and other elements leaving the movement path of the light sabers (see layer thumbnails) . You may also want to take into consideration what dominant features you may want in the scene - in your case , the hand-held baseball bat swing as well as how much detail of the batter you want to see.
You may also mask out these elements, as Danny suggested, but I'd do the selection in mask mode with a brush in order to get a clean and feathered delete of unwanted areas in the frame scene. Meticulous and time consuming but very effective. I used the eraser tool to do quick delete for this example so its quite rough.
The topmost frame is a duplicate of the first frame with areas deleted leaving just the hero's upper body or heads which I want more dominant in the final look.
With editing done, and all other layers opacity lowered and a bit of adjustments, you get the final rendered scene....
Just to add.... you have the option of lowering the frame opacities. Keeping them at 100% or slightly lower would also add to the intensity of action in the final render. Your pick....
You may need to remove frames at certain intervals in order to make each swing sequence more visible.
My sample, most especially that of your sample, looks more like motion blur.....
Here's a very rough and dirty example to give you an idea of the process involved and what you may need to do to simulate your sample...
This was taken from a short video clip (I'm sure you recognize this SW scene), imported into CS4 at the time to extract the frames into layers and processed in PS7 as my CS6 is so demanding on my cpu..... (what a mix...). I've edited down the frames further for this example.
edited source material:
Frame 12 is the start of the sequence and layer opacity is at 100%. Each of the following frames had been edited to remove the background and other elements leaving the movement path of the light sabers (see layer thumbnails) . You may also want to take into consideration what dominant features you may want in the scene - in your case , the hand-held baseball bat swing as well as how much detail of the batter you want to see.
You may also mask out these elements, as Danny suggested, but I'd do the selection in mask mode with a brush in order to get a clean and feathered delete of unwanted areas in the frame scene. Meticulous and time consuming but very effective. I used the eraser tool to do quick delete for this example so its quite rough.
The topmost frame is a duplicate of the first frame with areas deleted leaving just the hero's upper body or heads which I want more dominant in the final look.
With editing done, and all other layers opacity lowered and a bit of adjustments, you get the final rendered scene....
Just to add.... you have the option of lowering the frame opacities. Keeping them at 100% or slightly lower would also add to the intensity of action in the final render. Your pick....
You may need to remove frames at certain intervals in order to make each swing sequence more visible.
My sample, most especially that of your sample, looks more like motion blur.....