dilong Loc: Herne Bay, UK

Hi. In an effort to improve my photography I have a location photoshoot of a gothic nature shortly and wish to try to achieve an image of where the model has three or four ghostly impressions following her to a standstill pose which is properly exposed. I guess around 2 to 3 small paces before the standstill pose. Have attached a test run image with following settings. ISO 100. F/25. Shutter speed 20 secs. Shutter Priority. 18-55 lens used, focal length 24mm. I am using a 10 step ND filter. What I am finding is that I am getting a greyish film occurring on the top half of image, with a definite line across the middle. Conditions were cloudy, but bright, midday. If I put the ISO up, then this film becomes horrendous, but cannot go lower than 100. Have checked by taking an automatic shot that this film is not showing in another setting, and it is not. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated to achieve this.
I am planning (in order to create the effect) of having one image with the ghostly images with the model finishing in her stand still pose. Then get her to remain absolutely still and take another image of her without filter so I can photoshop them as layers after. Thanks

km2000 Loc: NashVegas

Maybe set your cam on sticks and shoot a sequence of images. Then blend in Photoshop. Punch out most forward layer for presence.

dilong Loc: Herne Bay, UK

Hi. Thanks for info. But any idea about film only half way down on image? (you saying put cam on sticks, I am guessing you mean camera on a tripod, which is what I am doing).

km2000 Loc: NashVegas

Don't understand this question

EoS_User Loc: Oshawa, Ontario Canada

This type of shot has got to be one of the main advantages some film cameras have over digitals. It seems ME or multiple exposure does not exist in the digital world of in camera techniques. My EOS 620 and EOS RT have ME capability with up to nine exposures on 1 frame. Could make this type of shot without any trouble. In the digital world it appears to take much more effort in PP.

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

This was a fun project - a photo of an Old school house and some of my wides mothers family back in the 1910 - 20. A lot of PS7 went into this and to be very truthful it was about 8 yrs ago so I don't have a clue of how I did it. LMAO

Old School with memories of Children

gmcase Loc: Galt's Gulch

What software for PP do have?

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Mine was PS7

Funboystu Loc: Cambridgeshire, UK

Did you have 3-4 set positions within the frame where your model will be or did you need 1 trail between 2 points. I am no expert but you may want to experiment with getting the model to walk between point A and B with different amounts of time standing still. so take 1 pic moving straight from point A to B then standing still for the rest of the 20 seconds. Then take another where she stands at point A for 5 seconds and at B for 15 seconds approx. just measure everything you do so you can try out different variations.

DennisK Loc: Pickle City,Illinois

I would think that you used a layer and adjusted the opacity?

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

Here are two sites I found by doing a search ie;ghost effects in photoshop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89GjKXZNryY

http://photoshoptutorialsat.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/creating-ghost-effect/

There are a lot more on the web

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

that would be a very incorrect assumption - many digital cameras are quite capable of in camera multiple exposures

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Yep - that was it - extract tool >copy>paste> optacy -many %

dadschild Loc: Methuen, Ma

Don't know anything about what your doing, wish I did.. Would love to try that. But you are gonna have her wear different clothes, right?

Michael13027 Loc: Baldwinsville ny U.S.

put camera on a tripod shoot the image without yourself in it. then enter the shot using a timer. now take both images in photoshop. put one image on top of the other in layers. take the image of you and select multiply on the layers menu. be sure when you take the photos the camera is in manual mode and focus also on manual. this will give you 2 images with same settings and they will blend perfectly.