Shooting and Assembling a Sports Action Composite
Shooting and Assembling a Sports Action Composite is an Intermediate level study on Photography, compiled by an expert, Seán Duggan. This study is an essential base for a person who needs to sharpen his/her Photography talent. It gives you a strong understanding on Cameras + Gear, Masking + Compositing, Photography, Photoshop, Cameras + Gear, Masking + Compositing, Photography and Photoshop.
Great athletes make great action shots. But an action shot shows just one moment of action—it doesn’t show the arc of a golfer’s swing or the form of a runner’s sprint.
By combining your camera’s burst mode with Photoshop, you can create a composite that shows an athlete in action. In this course, photographer and educator Seán Duggan shows how. After mapping out a plan for lighting, composition, and more, he photographs the subjects. Then, the action turns to Photoshop, where he assembles the composite using layer masks and some careful retouching.
Topics include:
- Planning the composite
- Choosing a camera, exposure, and lighting
- Choosing the sequence images
- Aligning layers
- Using layer masks
- Retouching
- Masking images together
- Cleaning up the background