Sequence Photography

Good morning Tuesday aficionados and welcome once more to another Terrific Tuesday!

Today’s blog is going to be a short one, I just finished two classes that gave me headaches for the whole period and just started two more that might not be as stressful but will require a lot of time!

My last class had a lot to do with proper sequence of images in a way that will make sense to tell a story, that was the headache part.  The good part was that I was able to take a lot of images with my models and of my town.  Of course everything has another size and all the models wanted copies of the images, so I had to deal with dividing over 900 images, do post-production and copy them to a disk for the ones that went over and beyond the help that I needed at the time.

So while I was looking for examples and help in creating proper sequence of photographs for a story I came upon this site that has some great action sequence photography and I wanted to share it with you.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/25-beautiful-examples-of-action-sequence-photography/

Some of the examples of this type of photography from the site can be seen here:

 

Jordan | mr.ainsworth

 

Greggins Jumping green water | ivotedforkodos

 

Have any of you ever done anything like this?  If you have, I would love to the see the images and I am sure the rest of the readers would love to see them too!  I am going to way until this weekend and I might try to find some kid on a skateboard and try this sequencing photography it seems to be fun.

Ok, so you might be wondering how to do it, right?  Well, check this site, it provides some instructions in how to do it, it has two parts but you can access the other part through the site.

http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/234/how-to-get-killer-sequence-photos-part-1/
 

Well, that is all for today, if you have some images to share, go ahead and let us see them.  Until later then, this is your Tuesday Ambassador wishing you a great shutterspeed day!

See you around cyberspace!

Tuesday Ambassador

Time to Contact your Sheets!

          Hello everyone and welcome to another Tuesday here in cyberspace!  Hope that you all are doing great things with your classes and that photography is still the passion in your lives and that your studies are just opportunities to hone your skills in the art!

So, this image should give you a clue of what I am going to talk about today.  

                                                                www.duncanfawkes.com

          I remember when I started the first photography classes and the professor asked for contact sheets, sometimes referred to as ‘proofs’.  The process is easy (well now it is!) and I am here to review the process and give you maybe a pointer or two about contact sheets.  Just remember that it could be worse, back in my younger days (a galaxy far, far away) we used roll of films and after developing the negatives, we put them on photographic paper in strips of 6 or 7, put a flat glass over them and expose the paper to light for a set period of time.  Later we developed the paper in stinking chemicals know as developer, stop bath and fixer to get the contact sheet (you probably read about it in one of your photographic history classes!).

So, what is the easiest way to do contact sheets?  See if the following steps help you:

1.       Import images from your camera into the Lightroom library.

2.       Select images you want to use to create a contact sheet.  You can do this in different ways, put them in folder, highlight them and select them, select them by key words (remember last week blog).

3.       Click on the ‘Print” module of Lightroom, it should default to contact sheet mode.

4.       Look for the ‘Layout’, go into the page grid on the right column of the layout style, select and play in how you want your layout to be.

5.       If you want to use the templates provided by Lightroom, go to the template browser (on the left side of the page) where you have several different templates to assist you in the creation of the sheet.

6.       The photo information part will let you post the necessary information for the images, however this sometimes depends on the requirements of the class or your professor.  You can customize your selection and use it time after time.

7.       When ready, print to file in jpg mode and then convert to pdf if required.

There you got it an easy and simple way to create contact sheets for your classes.  My best recommendation at this time is to practice and play with all the commands in each module of Lightroom in order to get acquainted and comfortable with everything.  Trust me, no matter how long is your degree, you will be doing contact sheets for a long period of time!

You want to see how others do contact sheets?  Click here for an example from the web!

Well, there you have it, hope that this helps a little when creating contact sheets.

And of course here is something to ponder, it is late but I  think that it goes well with last week celebrations!

So go ahead and drop me a line and let me know that everything is going ok in your classes, until then, see you around!

Tuesday Ambassador