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Posted by John Leech (Grange-over-Sands, United Kingdom) on 1 April 2009 in Sport & Recreation and Portfolio.
This young lad was clowning around with a big stick right on the horizon as I approach the top of a local hill. I took several shots then montaged them together. The background sky was disappointing, so this is a rare case where I added one from a different scene.
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@Mirza Ahmad: Thanks Mirza
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
How creative and enjoyable!!! Brilliant idea and it's perfectly executed! Wonderful capture and processing.:-)
1 Apr 2009 2:59pm
Kenton from Calgary, Canada
Very creative shot, the order in which you put together the poses is great.
2 Apr 2009 2:45am
Mike from Lichfield, United Kingdom
This is excellent and I should imagine was quite time consuming to put together. The long exposure of the night sky works very well against the silhouetted lad. The composition is excellent too. A quick thought, knowing how you like to compose things, I'm a little surprised you didn't leave a bit more space to the left and the right as the lad's stick is very close to the frame. It's not really something I would have picked up on until you got me thinking the other day. Lovely work.
2 Apr 2009 6:24am
@Mike: An interesting point regarding the stick. The one on the right does feel a little close, though the one on the left seems happy enough. I'll no doubt be looking at the spacing more as typography than people - the inter space between the left hand pair certainly feels overgenerous. Though it would be easy enough to tweak it all. The combining process didn't take all that long - the slowest part was expanding the canvas with all the images in one big file in 16bit mode - I should have knocked it down to 8bit to speed it up. Then with all the shots spread out I could select an order for them and ditch a few shots which didn't fit in. Not doubt 20 to 30 mins total. I expected the ground line to take some time, but it pieced together without any drama, I think I only ended up with one clumsy join to tidy up.
Ian Bramham from Manchester, United Kingdom
Another one of my recent favourites of yours John!
As I said last time, I'm sure this must have magazine or other commercial potential.
3 Apr 2009 9:03am
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
Five stars...this is just suberb!
Congratulations on such an amazing shot!
3 Apr 2009 12:40pm
Nikon D300
247 seconds
F/7.1
ISO 200
17 mm