How do I do this?

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Hey all.

I'm a keen skateboarder, and due to my knees giving way now, I've taken my fav sport into photography, and although, I can get average still photos, I'd love how to do the below affect...

I have a feeling its something along the lines of going onto a continuos shooting mode, and on a tripod, but how do I actually get the pics to be like it is in my example?

DC-Shoes-Unknown-Skater-08-848228.jpg


Cheers all.
 
Darn!
I only wanted to know the basics haha.

I'm not going full out for strobes or anything, just au-natural lighting, and I can only shoot I think its 4f/s...


*doh typing toooo slow. Is that all I do, take pics, and then layer them? - right, good time to learn how to layer lol. Does Gimp allow such feature?
 
you don't need to use a tripod, just make sure you have the exposure locked. You can follow the action and then shoot a few frames to fill in the gaps after. Stitching can be a bit labour intensive - lots of layer masks. Lenses that have heavy falloff in the corners aren't ideal either. Also, shoot jpeg, otherwise your buffer will probably fill and slow the camera down.
To give you an idea of shooting speeds, I think these were both 9fps.



haven't bothered to fill the gaps on this one.
 
Well to make the stitching easier, it's better to shoot with a longer focal length - both of those were shot with a 70-200. As for the falloff, this lens is pretty bad (on 35mm - fine on dx), just means you have to correct the vignette in pp before stitching. I'd say anything around 50mm up would be fine.
 
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