Max goes for a cold night flight.
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- Nov 4, 2012 at 9:35Nov 4, 2012
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München, Germany
- Trail
- Bike park Samerberg, Bavaria.
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- Max Schumann
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TheStig04
(Nov 4, 2012 at 20:01)
im not sure whether this makes me want to ski or bike more, but its an incredible shot either way!
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People are asking me about the light and camera setup, so I thought I'd just write about it once here...
The pic is actually two images superimposed one above the other - one being a long exposure, mainly to get the light worm, and the second being the flash shot to freeze Max in the air. Max's light with the long exposure bounced a lot of light off the snow so that's why you see good light off the snow surface and trees.
First pic is the long exposure at about 20 secs @ ISO 160 @f/5.6 on the Nikkor 16mm fisheye, no flash.
Second pic is the flash - obviously do not change the position of the camera, use a good tripod. Flashed at 1/500th sec using an Elinchrom Quadra AS head jacked up high on a stand to the left. Nikon max flash sync for a clear image is 1/250th but because Max is in the upper frame I could push it to 1/500th therefore maximizing his sharpness. Rear curtain. Camera is a Nikon D800 so plenty of resolution.
In photoshop stack the two images on top of each other using layers. If the flashed image ( mainly black except the rider ) is on top then rub out the area surrounding the rider to show through the long exposure pic beneath. Then flatten, save & post.
You can do it in one shot with the rear curtain flash at the end of a long exposure but, in my experience, you're always going to get some ghosting effect and, therefore, not the sharpest action freeze. Framing the rider against a dark background helps a lot too.
The pic is actually two images superimposed one above the other - one being a long exposure, mainly to get the light worm, and the second being the flash shot to freeze Max in the air. Max's light with the long exposure bounced a lot of light off the snow so that's why you see good light off the snow surface and trees.
First pic is the long exposure at about 20 secs @ ISO 160 @f/5.6 on the Nikkor 16mm fisheye, no flash.
Second pic is the flash - obviously do not change the position of the camera, use a good tripod. Flashed at 1/500th sec using an Elinchrom Quadra AS head jacked up high on a stand to the left. Nikon max flash sync for a clear image is 1/250th but because Max is in the upper frame I could push it to 1/500th therefore maximizing his sharpness. Rear curtain. Camera is a Nikon D800 so plenty of resolution.
In photoshop stack the two images on top of each other using layers. If the flashed image ( mainly black except the rider ) is on top then rub out the area surrounding the rider to show through the long exposure pic beneath. Then flatten, save & post.
You can do it in one shot with the rear curtain flash at the end of a long exposure but, in my experience, you're always going to get some ghosting effect and, therefore, not the sharpest action freeze. Framing the rider against a dark background helps a lot too.
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How did you only get the light to leave trails and not the rider himself? Slave flashes on a time?
- 2 0
Ohhhh, that makes sense, i feel like you may be able to do it with a remote flash and one long exposure. Not sure if you have tried that or not
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Here is the URL to the biggest version available.
gp1.pinkbike.org/p6pb8866803/p6pb8866803.jpg
Maybe that will work?
gp1.pinkbike.org/p6pb8866803/p6pb8866803.jpg
Maybe that will work?
this one is no exception