Cartwheel
in motion...
Digital Diary
Eadweard Muybridge was a major influence for this task. He was a trailblazer in photographic motion studies, with amazing sequences of human and animal motion. I was keen to try shooting acrobatics, opting for a nine shot sequence of Shelayne doing a cartwheel. The sequence was made at noon in full sunlight. I made photomontages of the individual shots showing progressive states of the movement, at first separately, then overlaid. An animated gif of the same sequence compresses the action so she is cartwheeling on the spot.
I used a 28mm lens on shutter priority S1/250th, f8 and ISO200, using continuous shooting while panning to follow the action. It took a few attempts to get a clear sequence capturing each element of the movement. The original shots had a high contrast background (a house in sunlight) which proved problematic, so each figure was etched and montaged onto a simple landscape.
I used a 28mm lens on shutter priority S1/250th, f8 and ISO200, using continuous shooting while panning to follow the action. It took a few attempts to get a clear sequence capturing each element of the movement. The original shots had a high contrast background (a house in sunlight) which proved problematic, so each figure was etched and montaged onto a simple landscape.
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