I have read on this website that digital technology has enhanced the characteristics of
photography. I offer 2 real world examples of this. The first image came as result
of my quest to produce an image that illustrated the grace of a throw by a disc golfer.
The second, a result of the challenge to visualize the action of synchronized flying kites
as they moved with the music from their 3 controllers. For my first challenge I needed to
condense the 6 second flight of a flying disc. The second challenge was to image kites moving
at 60 MPH to music by 3 operators to a music score into an understandable final picture. These
were real world problems that single shots could not capture. For the disc golf shot I
decided that a very long lens could compress the 200 yard coverage of the action into a
single image. I set my Pentax K200 on burst mode and got about 15 usable shots.
The background was the first picture as the disc left the throwers hand, and then I added
the remaining discs from their positions in the other pictures. I needed to interpolate a second
set of discs to get the pattern that I wanted to achieve. It took 33 layers to finish the shot.
Thankfully the disc golfer nearly hit a hole in one on this wind driven challenge.
The second shot was the result of two Fuji Velvia slides, one shot at 1/2000 of a second, the
other about a 1/2 second. The 1/2 second shot became the background, and the fast shot
supplied the kites. I had to rearrange the trails from the slow shot to match the high speed
kites.
