Please click the image to go to its Flickr page. ; There is a lot of information about the image and execution there (as well as two other pictures that inform as to the shot) and it's easier to go there than for me to re-post everything here.
Well, then, would you mind telling up the steps you took to process this? ; Looks like two images composited to me since you have two colored monorails which could never be that close together in real life. Could you share the Exif data of each of the photo(s). ; Excellent work, btw. Enjoyed the story behind it. Sigh, I miss the old EPCOT entrance without the monoliths, too. Thanks!
wow, unbelievable! I've got questions too! How are the monorails not blurred and how did you get two color monorails? Awesome work Tom!
I'm going to guess three shots at least...I've done this type of layering myself, though never to quite such good effect as here! ; Most likely, the main shot was the 10-second shutter exposure of the entire scene. ; Then, two secondary shots, each at a higher ISO yielding faster shutter speeds to freeze motion were taken - one for a Monorail arriving into the circle on the left, and another for a monorail leaving the circle on the right. ; Typically, the layers would be stacked with the main image over the two monorail shots. ; The two halves of the shots involving the monorails can each be kept, while the remainder of the layer can be erased - with one monorail stacked over the other and half a layer removed, you now have the two monorails just under the main globe layer. ; Using the eraser brush, you can just erase over the main layer (reduce opacity to help see) where the monorails are on the tracks, and it will show them through. ; Merge layers, and there you go. I don't know if that's the technique used, but that's what I do. ; I like to use the technique when taking photos of a building where people are passing by on the sidewalk - if the parks are more crowded there's no way you'll get a hole in the crowd. ; So rather than wait for the whole frame to be devoid of people, just take a photo with noone in one half of your shot, then a second photo when noone's in the left. ; Or three shots if needed. ; When the shots are layered, you can erase away the people from the shot showing through the blank space in the background, and make the scene look empty. Of course, best to use a tripod so the photos are perfectly aligned and at the identical focal distance. Very cool shot indeed! ; And it takes some kind of patience to wait for the perfect moment for the monorails to come into frame.
Hey Tom! With all these fantastic photos you've been processing from your last trip to WDW, when do you have time to study? ; You are in law school right? ;
I don't study at all during the semester. ; My grades are based solely on finals, and my strategy is to learn everything in the last month of the semester. ; The only real school work I do during the semester is for a thing called Law Review. ; Essentially, that requires me to edit others' work, check citations, and write some "stuff". ; The Note (although at 53 pages, it hardly should be called a "Note") I wrote last year will be published in December, if anyone is interested in criminal procedure (doubt it, but hey...). ; That makes for stressful 9 a.m. until 11 p.m. days at the library, but it makes the rest of my semester fun. ; The strategy has worked well thus far--I'm in the top 3% of my class. Here is a picture of my books from last semester:
Great shot! ; I really like it! ; I can't believe that you are able to pull off studying like that with that kind of work load! ; I also can't believe that stack of books!
