Express Action Sports

This is a really favourable technique that ive seen and as taking an interest in filming and capturing different sports in action I have not found any website or programmes that use this affect. I currently have photoshop, the image photography technique looks like this example…http://www.luminousether.com/mockholly/images/commentary/parkour-1.jpg

I’m sure I’ve seen this before.

This is done three ways:

1) The Old fashioned way with a piece of film, multiple exposures and fast continuous drive. Use a modern professional film camera such as a Nikon F5 or Canon 1V (or even Canon New F-1 High Speed Motor Drive capable 14 frames a second, which I believe is unsurpassed even today), a slow-ish film, probably ISO100 or so, and set multiple exposures of 6 or 7. Use a tripod and Click away as he jumps.

2) The stroboscopic way, this is the best way to do it at nighttime. Use a the stroboscopic mode of a flash like a Canon 580EX, and a long exposure at a slow (0.5-1 second) on tripod. Use a cable release, and click the shutter as he is about to launch. The stroboscopic will fire off rapidly in quick succession. Example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonperks/475154751/ (not one of mine)

3) The photoshop way. You’ll also need a high speed camera, at least a Canon 40D, capable of 6.5 fps (Canon 1D/1D2 is 8.5fps and 1D3/4 is 10, Nikon D3/3s is 9, Canon 7D is 8, and D300s is 8), likewise as he approaches fire off burst on tripod. Combine in photoshop using layers and transparency.