How is this done? This image fascinates me but I can't figure out how it was done. Can anyone help? (This image was published on another chat site as an example of a good dance shot...

jimward Loc: Perth, Western Australia

This image fascinates me but I can't figure out how it was done. Can anyone help? (This image was published on another chat site as an example of a good dance shot, so I don't think I'm breaking any rules reproducing it here).
Cheers
Jim

Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

jimward wrote:

This image fascinates me but I can't figure out how it was done. Can anyone help? (This image was published on another chat site as an example of a good dance shot, so I don't think I'm breaking any rules reproducing it here).
Cheers
Jim

I remember seeing a tutorial on Ghosts where copies of the image or other images were made as layers in PS or Elements, they can be moved around and the opacity adjusted to give a ghost like effect. I am certain that is how this image was produced.

John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

It is an in-camera multiple exposure with two of the shots being long exposure to blur the motion and one faster to freeze the action. I have done a few but not used different exposure times as it is difficult to change quickly. The one you show is very good. One of mine is attached. I have a better one from a trip to Cuba but cannot access it from my phone. This one is of the whirling dervishes in Turkey

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John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

Sorry, updated the wrong shot.

ygelman Loc: new -- North of Poughkeepsie!

jimward wrote:

This image fascinates me but I can't figure out how it was done. Can anyone help? (This image was published on another chat site as an example of a good dance shot, so I don't think I'm breaking any rules reproducing it here).
Cheers
Jim

To me it looks like one series of four (separate, not in-camera) shots with slow shutter and a single shot with normal settings. Then placing them all on layers with appropriate opacity etc to produce the final image. And well done, too.

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

jimward wrote:

This image fascinates me but I can't figure out how it was done. Can anyone help? (This image was published on another chat site as an example of a good dance shot, so I don't think I'm breaking any rules reproducing it here).
Cheers
Jim

Did you ask on the chat site?

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

My guess is a series of strobes firing with the last strobe brighter then the rest.

catfish252

Joe McNally has a short tutorial about repeating flash photography here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4fK3yvJLZM

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

tradio wrote:

My guess is a series of strobes firing with the last strobe brighter then the rest.

This would be how it was done in the BDSLR era ("Before DSLR" ). Doc Edgerton was the first to widely publish this type of photo in the 1950's:
http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/galleries/iconic

Even easier to do now with multiple strobes set at different intensities. Probably easier for those skilled in Photoshop...

TucsonCoyote Loc: Tucson AZ

One way for that effect is a long exposure finished off with a flash.
I believe.... :XD: :roll:
Just repeating what others have said ....it looks like ! lol

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

It is not done with multiple strobes because each strobe flash would have produced a sharp image. It would either be done with a slower shutter followed by a fast shutter at the end to capture the sharp image or, most likely they used one of those slit cameras that allows for some very wired effects. Of course if you can match your strobes light colour to that of ambient light then it would be easy to do this by dragging the shutter and using a strobe at the end. Then you could get this effect.

waegwan Loc: Mae Won Li

tradio wrote:

My guess is a series of strobes firing with the last strobe brighter then the rest.

That is my thought; one long exposure and some tricky lighting.

lifenprism Loc: Upstate S.C.

jimward wrote:

This image fascinates me but I can't figure out how it was done. Can anyone help? (This image was published on another chat site as an example of a good dance shot, so I don't think I'm breaking any rules reproducing it here).
Cheers
Jim

It's a rear sync flash with slow shutter

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Lucian wrote:

It is not done with multiple strobes because each ... (show quote)

:thumbup:

It isn't shot with strobes, that is obvious.

It does appear to be 3 or 4 shots with a slow shutter speed, and one shot with a higher shutter speed. The 3 or 4 slow speed shots may very well be a timed sequence, or not. The last shot obviously isn't.

waegwan Loc: Mae Won Li

lifenprism wrote:

It's a rear sync flash with slow shutter

That makes sense :)