Sequencing Technique Page

For sequencing, the method that you need to use is not all that difficult once you grasp what you need to do. 

To start off with you need to go out and take a lot of photos that you can piece together.  You can piece this photo together by either overlapping them to create a kind of multiple exposure image, or you could simply put one next to the other in order to show a sequence.  The most easiest way of explaining this method would be for me to say, get a friend to take some photos of and find a good background that will make the subject stand out.  It would then make sense for you to either put the camera on a tripod or hold the camera really still.  I think that the best way to get a perfect photo would be to use a tripod, as the idea is to be a still as possible.  You can that either choose the athletic option on your camera if you have one, or you can get the subject to move slowly enough so that you can have time to take all of the seperate images.  The idea would then to be to get your subject to begin walking across where you camera is pointed at giving you enough time to take all of the individual photos and then when the subject has gone all the way passed the viewfinder on your camera, go back to editing and piece together all of the different images, overlapping each one.  The idea would be to erase or cut out the subject from each of the images apart from the starting position and then overlap each layer that you have erased or cut out, in order to make it look like the person is walking across. you could also fade some of the layers so that others stand out more than others.  You could also make the person do some cool tricks that you could photograph to make the photos look a little more interesting than someone just walking past.  A good example of what the final image should look like, should look like this.

Another way that you could photograph sequencing, would be through photographing some sort of progression, for example, you could get a flower and take a photo of it and then gradually pick of the petals and take a photo in between each stage of the loss of petals until you are left with no petals and just the middle of the flower.  You could then place all of the images side by side or in a grid format to show how the flower is slowly deteriorating.  I think that this method of sequencing also looks really good and is better if you are trying to present a story, maybe between two people. An example of this form of sequencing would be something more like this.