I am trying to figure out how to get a strobe effect in an image. If you see a picture of a someone skateboarding and they catch air and you see each rotation or move they make in a single image, how is it done.
Here is a link to the image style I am talking about. I would appreciate any info that you can give. Is it done with a still camera, digital/film or a video camera.
The traditional way was to have a flash (the strobe) go off at regular intervals, thus exposing the film several times, if a person had moved, you would get the effect seen in your example.
The things is you have to be able to control the lighting condition to do this, which I suspect was not the case here… The "modern" option would be to take multiple photos and assemble them in Photoshop.
I have been Multi-popping my Bowens for years — my oldest ones (which are still popping) were built in 1976.
Lighten/Screen can be used to EMULATE the effect of REAL multiple exposure photography (on REAL film because I don’t believe that you can do this on digi-cams ?!)
Ann if you do some math on the picture, you may find that your strobes cannot sustain the popping rate needed for that kind of shooting. (where would you put the strobes and what power would they need anyway?)
The kind of shot that is shown in Blackhawk’s example was traditionally made by using incident light and a wheel with opaque and clear segments being spun in front of the camera lens instead of a normal shutter. No strobes needed to be popped.
Ann, The wheel you describe, would distort the moving subject (at motorcycle jumping speed). A wheel moving from left to right would elongate the subject and the opposite would produce horizontal compression.
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