Love this! But how the heck?

ancient_mariner said:
Maybe it was deliberately designed to look like something that might have been taken with a phone cam, and there's been a lot of careful planning to make it look like this? Maybe it was shot using a phone & then processed with those tools intentionally?
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Maybe it is intentionally crap - but I don't know of a phone that allows such a long exposure, I think it was definitely taken with a 'proper' camera and on camera flash.
 
Phil V said:
Maybe it is intentionally crap - but I don't know of a phone that allows such a long exposure, I think it was definitely taken with a 'proper' camera and on camera flash.
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I agree, a bit of rear curtain and tell them to be as still as poss whilst someone one runs round with a light stick, hence they have less ghosting than the guy behind them. Not really seeing anything too technically challenging tbh.
 
It looks like hand held slow shutter-speed and a single flash at rear curtain sync, fairly easy to do with a LED stick whizzed around them during exposure. Don't think photoshop has been used to do anything other than the selective colour crap, the rest is easily done in a single frame, in camera.
 
Yv said:
if you say so Ben, can't say I have ever found to it to be in similar scenarios, but it probably doesn't matter too much on this one anyway. :)
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I always find that if you use rear curtain it's much harder to capture emotion. Easier to catch what somebody is doing at that moment rather than predicting what they'll be doing in 5 seconds time.
 
Ulfric M Douglas said:
There is more photoshop on this, and its already been pointed out by at least one other poster.

Just look bottom right : awful awful cloning/pasting.
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No chance. As if the photographer would be bothered to start cloning stuff out on Facebook photos like this.

It's really straightforward. Point and shoot flash on camera (likely first curtain sync if the photographer knew what they were doing) with a longish exposure. People move, there is ambient exposure from the bar and the light-stick. Therefore people show ghosting as they move across the image.

Photoshop to knock it back to black and white with the exception of the light trail. You can see plenty of colour bleeding on people and the background where the photographer hasn't had the time or inclination to mask properly.

All of this is overlooking the much more pressing matter, of why the hell they are putting premixed fruit juice into such good Cognac.
 
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