Motion or Rear Sync in PSCS?

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dperez
Dec 9, 2004
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Y’all,

I’d like to take a static image and make it appear as if in motion……

NOT just a motion blur, but the kind of thing I’ve seen in night shots where they use a rear sync or slow sync on a moving car for example? You get a blur of motion and then a clear, sharp image of the car when the flash fires…….

Now, I’d like to do something SIMILAR, but I’m using an old train engine, so shooting it at night and using a flash isn’t gonna do me any good…

So, its dawn, and I have a train engine that I’ve captured as its sitting in the yard with smoke billowing out the funnel, and steam from the drive cylinders….. I’d like to make the train appear as if in motion and then have the very sharp engine at the end…

I’ve tried duplicating the background layer, then doing a motion blur of 150-200 pixels on the new layer. Then I moved the image over 100 pixels or so. When I reduce the opacity of the layer I get SORT-OF what I’m after but it still doesn’t seem to quite have the feel of movement…

So how do I do this?
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Roberto
Dec 19, 2004
I haven’t tried this in Photoshop, but is it not possible move the camera instead of the train engine to create motion?

For example, put the camera on a tripod, but slacken the screw so the tripod can pan horizontally, then shoot in aperture priority with 1st curtain sync, with a slow shutter speed and just after the flash goes off, pan the camera whilst the shutter is still open.

If there is too much light, then add a ND filter for a slow shutter speed.

wrote in message
Y’all,

I’d like to take a static image and make it appear as if in motion……
NOT just a motion blur, but the kind of thing I’ve seen in night shots
where
they use a rear sync or slow sync on a moving car for example? You get a
blur
of motion and then a clear, sharp image of the car when the flash
fires…….
Now, I’d like to do something SIMILAR, but I’m using an old train engine,
so
shooting it at night and using a flash isn’t gonna do me any good…
So, its dawn, and I have a train engine that I’ve captured as its sitting
in the
yard with smoke billowing out the funnel, and steam from the drive cylinders….. I’d like to make the train appear as if in motion and then
have
the very sharp engine at the end…

I’ve tried duplicating the background layer, then doing a motion blur of
150-200
pixels on the new layer. Then I moved the image over 100 pixels or so.
When I
reduce the opacity of the layer I get SORT-OF what I’m after but it still doesn’t seem to quite have the feel of movement…

So how do I do this?
R
Roberto
Dec 19, 2004
Sorry, having a stupid 5 minutes. This would cause the background to blur as well.

However, you could possible do 2 shots, one showing motion blur of the engine, and the next a still shot for a sharp background, and then try to combine them in Photoshop.

"A" wrote in message
I haven’t tried this in Photoshop, but is it not possible move the camera instead of the train engine to create motion?

For example, put the camera on a tripod, but slacken the screw so the
tripod
can pan horizontally, then shoot in aperture priority with 1st curtain
sync,
with a slow shutter speed and just after the flash goes off, pan the
camera
whilst the shutter is still open.

If there is too much light, then add a ND filter for a slow shutter speed.

wrote in message
Y’all,

I’d like to take a static image and make it appear as if in motion……
NOT just a motion blur, but the kind of thing I’ve seen in night shots
where
they use a rear sync or slow sync on a moving car for example? You get
a
blur
of motion and then a clear, sharp image of the car when the flash
fires…….
Now, I’d like to do something SIMILAR, but I’m using an old train
engine,
so
shooting it at night and using a flash isn’t gonna do me any good…
So, its dawn, and I have a train engine that I’ve captured as its
sitting
in the
yard with smoke billowing out the funnel, and steam from the drive cylinders….. I’d like to make the train appear as if in motion and
then
have
the very sharp engine at the end…

I’ve tried duplicating the background layer, then doing a motion blur of
150-200
pixels on the new layer. Then I moved the image over 100 pixels or so.
When I
reduce the opacity of the layer I get SORT-OF what I’m after but it
still
doesn’t seem to quite have the feel of movement…

So how do I do this?

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