SG/GK: 4th weekend!

[nakedbee]

Whew! The first block of photoshoots is done and now we all get a weekend off to enjoy the Halloween festivities. I've added more photos from last weekend to the gallery. We shot the fox hunt, the stable scenes, and a random traveling scene.

On to the pictures!

Comments

[istgut.livejournal.com]

Good stuff! I wonder if some of the running shots might look even better with some motion blur?

[garlikmongere.livejournal.com]

Looking at the pictures, it seemed to me like some people were better at freezing in a position where they appeared to actually be in motion (as opposed to pretending to be in motion). Positioning arms/hands and making them walk two steps forward and two steps back for each photo is probably too complicated, especially given our time constraints. I guess static shots of motion is something to think about and possibly work on for the last two hunt days.

[istgut.livejournal.com]

I actually meant as a post-process, now that the shots are already taken. A little bit of photoshop blurring could go a long way :)

[martian687.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I'm going to reveal the embarrassing fact that I watch America's Next Top Model fairly religiously, and one of the things that becomes obvious very quickly on that show is that getting pictures of people actually in motion comes out way more natural looking than getting shots of people pretending to be in motion, even if the people are really good actors. Of course, whenever I try the technique my shots come out super blurry, so I'm not sure if it requires a fancy schmancy camera that supports a super high ISO or something.

The downside is that you have to get like a million shots to get one good one where every body part and facial feature is in the desired position. And in ANTM's cases, there's only one human subject in the pictures!

[garlikmongere.livejournal.com]

There's also the issue that running in crazy high platform boots isn't going to work, especially when one of them loses it's sole. :)

At the previous shoots there were some shots where people would move a few steps in place and pause mid step, but I don't remember much of that during the fox hunt. It may have just been a matter of too many people to coordinate and focus on for each shot.