Fountains Abbey, YorkshireA blend of 50 images in Photoshop, from a time lapse sequence, to produce a clean image with an impression of a single long-exposure image.

On this day, there were plenty of people in the lawns, but because the processing was from 50 source images, only those that were stubborn and not had moved in that period have remained - albeit blurred - in the shot The image is a blended final composite made of fifty RAW images that were captured as part of a lengthy time-lapse sequence from a visit to the Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. These images were stacked in Photoshop using the Smart Stack mode to give an impression of a long-exposure shot.

Having tried experimenting with other burst mode sequences of about 12 to 15 images with limited success, I am fairly certain that this work best on time-lapse sequences.

The one thing yet to be tried is to see how effective this technique is to deal with High ISO noise, as there are plenty of video evidences on YouTube that are quite encouraging - one that I will capture as part of another time-lapse sequence and attempt to test this for myself.

The original time-lapse video  of the Fountains Abbey sequence can also be seen here.

Fountains Abbey Timelapse