REM@IMSSS (Robert Elton Maas, this host known locally only) (01/17/86)
To the person who wants to take composite picture of kids&Halley:
If you're willing to cheat, take separate images of p/Halley and kids
and superimpose them later with help from a professional photography
shop or some expert (or yourself), I suggest taking several shots of
p/Halley by itself (with stars and background sky brightness etc. of
course) and of kids against dark background. Then at your leisure try
combining them in both ways:
(1) merely superimpose them with kids being translucent, stars
shining thru them, maybe have kids seem to be grabbing at the
comet, so the image is ghostly/supernatural kids out in space
grabbing at the comet.
(2) use masking techiques to blot out stars&sky from behind kids, so
they appear opaque instead of translucent, and have kids pointing
at comet or watching it or something like that.
If you don't want cheat at all, even by double-exposing with telephoto
for comet and flash for kids, you have a very hard problem getting
kids to stand motionless for 5-10 minutes on a platform that moves
with the comet's aparent motion.
If you want to cheat just a little, well, specify your exact cheat-rules.
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