How to achieve this incredible post production!

[nkphotography]

Hello, I would like to discuss with you how to achieve this blury look, movement in the photo. Thank you very much!!

[insmac]

This is done in-camera with prolonged exposure.

To mimic the mentioned effect would require quite a few semi-transparent, well blurred layers.

[plugsnpixels]

In-camera: Flash and blur technique. Have some ambient light in the room (such as the modeling lights on your strobes). Shoot handheld with a slow shutter speed (perhaps 1 second or so); when you shoot the flash will go off and freeze the subject for a fraction of the exposure while the ambient light will be captured along with camera movement for the rest, resulting in the combination you see here.

On the computer with an unblurred photo: Try what insmac said or apply a third-party plug-in effect such as Retrographer.

[insmac]

It's way easier to capture this straight on camera than juggle the layers in post. That way you get both the movement and warm tones coming from incadescent/tungsten haze without messing around with computer.

This particular effect is quite common in high fashion magazines.
Paola Kudacki does it:
http://www.paolakudacki.com/PHOTO/images/017.jpg
http://www.paolakudacki.com/PHOTO/images/036.jpg
though a movement is more subtle here. Exposure was set to 2 secs.

[plugsnpixels]

Advantages and disadvantages of course. In-camera would involve lots of experimentation to it get just right but would include blurred elements of the original subject, whereas in post you might have more deliberate control but achieve less realism.

[insmac]

Well yes. You can't control it all, the direction, the spread of highlights, but that uncertainty is also cool.

In PS, on the other hand, you'd have to literally paint the whole raylights, the blurring itself would not be enough to achieve realism.

[plugsnpixels]

So ideally, do it in-camera. Unless it's too late ;-).

[Shannon Fontaine]

the key to having the final, core image sharp is firing a strobe or strobes at the very end of the exposure, using rear curtain sync - you won't get the clarity without the flash to freeze your subject

[Pics2]

It can be front curtain sync, too. Just, the lights would move in opposite direction.

[nkphotography]

Hello, thank you everybody so much!! Particulary this retouch on this photo was achieved in post production because I also saw the original file. I will keep searching!! Thank you

[Pics2]

Great work then. It looks like in camera. By the way, I don't see any logical explanation for using this effect on particular picture. It is supposed to mimic some kind of movement, and she stands still. I know, the photographer is moving, but why is he moving if he's taking a picture?

[Pip]

I think doing it in post is far more effective. Have a look at this, defo done in post:

http://fashiongonerogue.com/gertrud-...im-numero-129/

How? Sorry I can't answer that question. If you have been lucky with your research I would love to hear it. Take care!

Pip

[oneredpanther]

To say this is pure post would be grossly incorrect. At best it is totally in-camera, at 'worst' it is a composite of a still image and a long-shutter image. To my knowledge there is no way to create light trails in photoshop like a dragged shutter would, and nobody woul spend hours recreating something that could be done in-camera in half a second.

[kulasdp]

Originally Posted by Pip

I think doing it in post is far more effective. Have a look at this, defo done in post:

http://fashiongonerogue.com/gertrud-...im-numero-129/

How? Sorry I can't answer that question. If you have been lucky with your research I would love to hear it. Take care!

Pip

this is definitely done in camera. I have been a digital tech to numerous photo shoots including vogue, cosmopolitan and so on.
We have done that a lot of times. Simple when you know how to use it.
On my shoots mostly done with a medium format camera.
Shutterspeed between 1/15 th till a 1 second - f22 - camera set on rear curtain sync. You have to play around with the technique for example:
You move the camera: left, right, forward backward
Model moves
You zoom in or out
You control the amount by the time you let light thru.
We used broncolor strobes and arri 2500w fresnels, some gels etc.

Some special effect stuff you can photograph with it also and than paste as an artistic composite.

It's really not that difficult.

Hope I could shed some more light on this stuff.

Cheers,

Martin.