Fast Train - Slow Camera

Inspired by +Gene Bowker I went out and shot trains.  I leared a few things about shooting trains.  1) It is really boring waiting for a train, 2) setting up the shot ahead of time doesn't help because the train comes down the wrong set of tracks, and 3) it is really ESHILARATING when the train is rushing by and the world starts to whirl around you.

This image was shot at ISO 100, 3.2 sec exposure, 32 aperture, 238 mm zoom on my trusty Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT.

Multiplicity

The first step in taking this picture was setting my camera up on my tripod and setting my interval timer to take a shot every 10 seconds.  From there I just walked around the frame, smiled, and ignored the fact that I looked really silly!

Once I had the pictures taken, I loaded all the ones I wanted to use onto photoshop.

I picked one picture to paste all of the other self-portraits into.  From there I used the Lasso tool to draw a line around me in one picture, copied it, pasted it, and then tried to match the spot where it fit as best as I could.  It is kind of like putting a puzzle together. If you look at the picture on the left you can see where I have used to Lasso tool to delineate what to copy.  In the picture in the middle you can see that I have pasted it but not yet placed it.

I made a second version of the picture with one more me =).   Although I used photoshop, Gimp is a free photo editing software that would do just as good of a job as photoshop did.