In the example shown here, my camera was set
up on a tripod to photograph The Bean in Chicago’s
Millennium Park. About a hundred or more exposures
were captured over a period of an hour and these were
then blended using the Median Stack Mode processing
method described above. Despite having shot so many
photos, it wasn’t possible to remove all the people who
were congregated directly below the sculpture and so
they ended up as a dark blur.
As I mentioned at the beginning, you’ll get better
results if the camera is mounted on a tripod, although
you can also get this to work where the photos have
been captured handheld by selecting all the layers in
Photoshop and going to Edit>Auto-Align Layers before
converting them to a smart object.
Interestingly, while taking these photos, I met a young
photographer from Denmark and explained to him the
intended process. He quickly shot half a dozen frames
with his camera handheld. The following day he emailed
me his processed image. His wasn’t a perfect result,
but I still thought it was really impressive considering
he had created it from a series of handheld shots. nAfterBefore DEVELOPING THE SHOTKELBYONE.COM