The Perfect Picture; sequence photo and forever young fashion

Thursday 3 November 2022, 09:27 by Elja Trum | 4,935 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Last night there was another episode of The Perfect Picture on RTL4. This time, the celebrity photographers took on a sequence photo and a forever young fashion shoot.

Sequence photo

The first assignment was to create a sequence photo. This means a photo in which several images are combined directly after one another. The assignment was to include at least four photos in one shot.

The Canon EOS R6 the celebrities worked with has a special built-in function for this. You take a series of photos and the camera combines them automatically. For the right effect, the camera does need to be placed on a tripod.

There were two lenses available to work with, the Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS or the Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L. The 24-105mm is naturally more versatile, but the 14-35mm gives you the option of shooting with a nice wide angle.

A decent wide angle was useful for this assignment, because the participants had to get the same person into one image at least four times. You need enough space in your frame for that.

The winning shot was also taken with the 14-35mm, but three candidates still chose the 24-105mm.

Extreme sports photographer Luc Buthker joined as a guest judge to give the participants some tips.

Winning photo by Linda Hakeboom
f/4, 1/400s, 2500 ISO
Linda was the deserved winner of this round. Her photo had a strong beginning, ending and climax. This means the photo tells the complete story of the BMX rider's jump.

Although Edwin's photo did not have a clear start and finish, I still thought it was a very successful photo.

» View all photos from the shoot

Forever young fashion

The second assignment was to create a fashion photo with the theme 'Forever young'. For this assignment, the celebrities could take photos of over-65s in colourful clothing. They went to an amusement arcade in Utrecht as the location for the shoot.

The guest judge for this shoot was fashion photographer Wendelien Daan.

For this shoot, the candidates used a Canon EOS 90D with my favourite lens, the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II.

The 90D has an APS-C-sized sensor, which means that the 24-70mm is not as wide when zoomed out as you might want it to be, roughly equivalent to 38mm on full frame. Despite this, most of the celebrities managed to create a full-length photo just fine, as that was part of the assignment.

Winning photo by Filemon Wesselink
f/2.8, 1/40s, 125 ISO
Filemon won this shoot with the photo above. I personally liked Trijntje's photo slightly better, but Filemon's photo was indeed very successful too.

» View all photos from the shoot

Home assignment

This week's home assignment is to create another sequence shot like this. I think it would certainly be fun to try. If your camera does not have this function built in, you can of course still take a series of photos and combine them in Photoshop.

This week's assignment is:

'Create your own unique sequence shoot of a person or an animal in motion!'

» Submit your photo

Next week

Next week, the celebrities will take on food photography. They have to photograph food together with a model in an alluring way.

The second assignment will be photographing special icons. For this shoot, the celebrities will take photos of someone from their family.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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3 comments

guest wrote on Thursday 3 November 2022 at 21:23 | reply
This is nice but is this also possible with a Nikon ?
Translated from Dutch.

Martin wrote on Saturday 5 November 2022 at 15:32 | reply
Very beautiful sequence photography. I have a Canon R. So no R6. Of course, it has the Multiple Exposure program, with the option to take photos continuously. But set to additive, average or lighter and darker, it was impossible to get a properly exposed sequence. Either the background was well exposed and the person was almost impossible to see. Or the background was much too light. You can't use lighter and darker because then heads and other lighter parts disappear. In short, I didn't manage it. Where is my thinking wrong? Or is this only possible with the R6?? They did that in an hour.... I've already been at it all day. Grrrrr Haha
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P. Heins wrote on Tuesday 8 November 2022 at 14:03 | reply
Dear Martin, that is the problem with this program. Everything is prepared for the participants, they really only have to press that button. A speedlite flash was also used. You can't convince me that the participants know how to set up such a flash. It is an entertainment program , if you want to learn something about photography , you shouldn't watch it. Everything oet fast,fast. The winning photo of the home assignment is only on screen for a millisecond. The winning photo "silence"was taken near Enkhuizen, but in my opinion it could just as well have been one of the other hundreds of landscape photos. Maybe you should look for some tutorials on sequence photography on youtube. Practice makes perfect.
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