I did one of these a few months ago with my daughter. It was a hassle because I did it with my old P&S Sony and had no remote. That meant I would put her down and run to the camera, take the photo, and then run back to her before she fell over. :P
1. Set up your tripod in one centralized location.
2. Take multiple shots of your subject in different locations/poses in the room. DO NOT move the camera between shots.
3. Overlay all of the photos in Photoshop (the general background will be the same)
4. Mask/trim your subject from all the different poses leaving the background in ONLY the bottom pic in tact.
5. Clean up as needed to make the image seamless.
That's a quick step by step of how to do it. Hope you get the jist of it.
These are hilariously funny. My daughter and I were cracking up over the third shot, with the parents all worn out on the couch and the little girl everywhere. Great job and very entertaining. Thanks for sharing...
I love that effect, going to give it a go tomorrow..... my PS skills are a bit weak though, I think I'm going to be spending lots of time reading the help files..
I tried this too. You have to congratulate JubbaKing - to do this as well as he takes a lot of planning, steady work, and detailed photoshopping. To make it pop like his do is a whole other story.
wow these are great. I had a go a few years ago no way near yours.I have a copy of mine on a wall at work, its fun to see people just stand and look at it and try to work out how it was done
These are a lot of fun to do. I did one like this but instead of wearing the same clothing I switched it around a bit and wore different clothing and had different hairstyles. I think I will be doing one of myself in the future with me being every member of a band while we rock out
I love these shots - I think I'll have to try another one some time. Here's something along a similar line that I did last spring (I was trying to work out how crowded our pool would be with the 20 kids that we had invited to my son's party....)
nate, these are awesome. as a photorapher, this is one of the most creative ways I have seen of capturing the total essence of a person....awesome. Cleve
So I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while.
I'm a game developer, and have been for many years, before we had 3d games. In the old 2d world, I used to do similar things with sprite animations. I had a tool that did something similar to the subtract blend mode in photoshop.
My point is I think, if the light is controlled well enough, that using subtract, and maybe a limit filter, it would be easy to almost automate the stitching in photoshop.
I'll try to get a shot or two to play with, and see what i can come up with.
