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Do you think this is photoshopped..

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TheBeardedOne
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I need to know..

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May 14 2013 5:00AM
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yaqwsxcde123vfr
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no, not essentially
May 14 2013 5:09AM
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lands11
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Nope, I'm sure someone who is a photographer could explain how to do this. I'm not a photographer so I don't really know. It's possible called a long exposure.


Again, I'm sure someone could explain this much better
May 14 2013 7:35AM
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Huck_Norris
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Lol... No. Unless that's Jaymay- in which case OMFG LOOK AT THOSE FKN PIXELS.
May 14 2013 7:38AM
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fortyvalve
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nope, same concept as light painting. extremely slow shutter speed will do the trick
May 14 2013 7:41AM
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Laurent.
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Here is our favourite Asian with British accent and his gang explaining things:


May 14 2013 9:17AM
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DBowden
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He's doing fire poi. the photographer used a slow shutter speed.
May 14 2013 9:19AM
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Stose
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He might have touched it up in photoshop, but the effect was just done with a camera technique
May 14 2013 9:30AM
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bnewbs6
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Nope. It's not photoshopped. And I've seen a lot of shops in my time.
May 14 2013 9:48AM
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Spinoza
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go on..
May 14 2013 9:49AM
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UphillIce
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I expected that it was a long exposure when I first looked at it, but I don't think it is (solely).  If it were a long exposure, his hands and the chain would be blurred where they were moving with the fire.

I'm not a photography wizard, but if I were to do this, I would take one fast shutter photo and one longer shutter photo and combine them. The first would give you the hands/chain/body sharply. The second would give you the fire rings. They you just erase everything but the fire on the second and overlay it on the first. It takes a lot of skill though, as the fire is semi transparent in places (which is why you want to shoot it at exact same place rather than just grabbing the fire from anywhere. It makes it a lot easier.

Now someone with more experience/talent than me could possibly do it more efficiently, but that's how I'd go about it and the end result would look the same

May 14 2013 9:59AM
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Laurent.
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That is far more effort, you just need one exposure and just a flash.


Dark room > begin exposure, flash (this creates the portrait of the subject) , then make your light dick, end exposure.

Look at the digitalrev video above, they did the same thing.
May 14 2013 10:07AM
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UphillIce
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That makes perfect sense.

If only I'd stop forgetting flash exists...
May 14 2013 10:10AM
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MASkier
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Is there a fire spinning cult?
May 14 2013 11:09AM
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Blake.P
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Surprisingly no with the large number of fire spinners on a skiing website



Really?
May 14 2013 11:18AM
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homestar
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Wouldn't the fire illuminate his arms before and after the flash?
May 14 2013 11:50AM
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Laurent.
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That's too little light to be picked up if you move fast enough.
May 14 2013 11:58AM
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foodbuffet11
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[IMG]file:///Users/karenjenson/Pictures/the_freakiest_hybrid_celebrity_gif_creations_15.gif[/IMG]
May 14 2013 12:59PM
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1337
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HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
May 14 2013 1:03PM
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Deezy
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This looks like a classic Rear Curtain Sync.

What is a rear curtain sync? (in this case) It's a long exposure photograph with the flash firing as the shutter closes. i think the flash fires at the end of the exposure because of his hands and the direction of rotation of the chain.
[sometimes its not a "long" exposure, but usually is]
May 14 2013 2:50PM
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Deezy
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Oh, but yeah 100% photoshopped! look at that post crop vignetting and off colours. not to mention the no highlights and super dark blacks. (im a bit colourblind but to me the fire looks green)
imo the photographer should have cropped the right off too
May 14 2013 2:54PM
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TheBeardedOne
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Sorry, I must have been drunk.. that is me and I must have been fishing for compliments :) sorry to waste your time
May 14 2013 3:17PM
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sveinung
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No, its just slow shutter speed
May 14 2013 3:18PM
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90053
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gotta love digirev
May 14 2013 3:25PM
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FearlessBlackMan
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This is the only plausible explanation so far. All of people saying it's just slow shutter speed are morons.
May 14 2013 4:50PM
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