New: There’s a screen capture of the editing process that went into this picture. Check it out below.

What’s not captured in this movie is the actual shooting. I used my D200 & 50mm/1.4 lens for this image, in program mode. Focusing was manual to avoid autofocus confusion as I was moving about and triggering the two separate exposures using a remote trigger. An SB-800 was located high camera left and aimed at the ceiling for smooth, large-area illumination and triggered by an SU-800 unit on camera.

The final image was constructed from two separate exposures, carefully blended in Photoshop using layer masks to achieve the desired effect. My Wacom Intuos3 tablet is a great tool for this kind of work. I then brought it into Lightroom for additional tonal adjustments and keywording.

I had first tried to use the in-camera multiple exposure mode, but decided that I’d want a little more creative freedom and manually blend the outcome, so I abandoned that and chose to manually merge two exposures instead. The screen capture was created using iShowU HD Pro.

Quoting Yann-Arthus Bertrand:

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

PPR is proud to support HOME
http://www.ppr.com

HOME is a carbon offset movie
http://www.actioncarbone.org

More information about the Planet
http://www.goodplanet.info

HOME can be watched for free on its YouTube channel in a variety of languages, or directly embedded after the jump below.

In Kürze: Knietiefer, daunenweicher Powder, und das Terrain nicht steil genug um ordentlich fahren zu können… aber immer noch ein unglaublicher Spass. Und auf jeden Fall besser als daheim zu sitzen und in die Glotze zu gaffen.

Plus, yesterday I discovered that with a little trick and the right software the iPhone is actually capable of recording fairly decent videos. So of course we had to try that out today, too.

This video should be mandatory viewing. Especially for people who never spend much thought on where stuff comes from, where it goes to, and how we (humans as a whole) manage to completely fuck up our planet in the process of producing, using, and disposing of stuff.

Click on the banner and view the video. If afterwards you think that you’ve just wasted 20 minutes of your precious time, I’ll gladly reimburse you with a clue-by-four.

By Improv Everywhere.

(from shifthappens.wikispaces.com,  via infosthetics.com)