It’s the first day of spring, so flowers and photos of them are all around. But are you up for some different flowers? How about dandelions made of windmills? Photographer Jamie Seidel took and edited a fantastic photo where he made windmills look like white dandelions. It took 700 photos, so he also created a timelapse video. He has shared the details of this shot with us, and if you’re willing to try, here’s how to do it.
Jamie does photography as a hobby, but he says it’s turning into quite a passion. In the past 4 years, he’s been taking pictures more seriously and he has excelled much quicker than he could have imagined. He loves the solitude and quietness of the night, so he often does astrophotography. He recently bought a slider for timelapsing of astrophotography, which is part of how he come up with this windmill picture. For star trails, you take many images and stack them in Photoshop. He says he’s driven past these windmills for years, and now finally decided to try and apply the same technique to them. Here are the settings and the gear he used:
The gear
Canon 6DSigma 70-200mmPromote ControlManfrotto 290 XTRA
Camera settings
1/500 secISO100f/10
As you can see, the gear setup is pretty simple. A camera on a tripod and a remote control. I asked Jamie how he took the shots, and of course – how he created the final image. And here’s how the process looked like: I find it fascinating that 700 photos were necessary to create a single shot. But, I believe taking photos was actually the easy part. As for the post-processing, it took some time and patience in Photoshop. And here’s how Jamie stacked the images and got the final result: I always love to see people who have fun with photos and get fantastic results like Jamie did. I really like this creative game he made from his images, and I’d like to thank him for sharing the details with us. So, if there are windmills in your area, you know what to do. Jamie showed you how, all you need to do is go out and shoot.
