Marc Adamus LIE #1: 7 exposures in 30 seconds (or less)

Marc Adamus LIE #1: 7 exposures in 30 seconds

 On photo.net, referring to his image “Mountain Mountain”, taken in Zion National Park (right off the road, too), Marc made the following statement:

This is a blend of seven exposures taken as quickly as possible…..

…..All this in 30 seconds or less so there was tack sharp detail throughout and so it looked the way I envisioned it.

 Let’s start with this important bit of info that immediately made the 30 second claim a preposterous lie:

I combined two successive 6 second exposures to get the streak all the way across the foreground.

 So we have one 6 second exposure, plus a 6 second noise reduction (dark frame) exposure, equaling 12 seconds for one exposure. Both exposure total 24 seconds just for the 2 frames. So Marc is implying that in 6 seconds or less, he was able to fire off the following:

-2 different exposures at F9 for depth of field

-2 exposures for highlight control

-1 exposure at F2.8 and ISO 800 to reduce wind motion in the trees

 Of course, the time quoted by Marc (30 seconds OR LESS) is absolutely preposterous, unless Marc can somehow move at approximately the speed of sound (or light).  Taking all these exposures and changing the settings in between would likely require at least two minutes, and probably closer to between two and three minutes. 

 We understand WHY Marc made up this lie. The idea is that if you shoot off a whole bunch of exposures in a couple seconds and then combine them in Photoshop (will he also claim that this was done in 30 seconds or less?), it’s somehow not a fraudulent construct because it was all done really quickly, and therefore essentially just a single image. We’ll let you try to wrap your mind around that sort of reasoning for a moment.

By the way, the “image” itself and all the manipulation that went into creating it is critiqued here.