Seeing Treble starring Bill Quackspeare

One bath duck + one long exposure + one home-made* lens cover = a bit of silliness and lots of harmless fun. :-D
I was aiming to get the exposures equal but I think I'll have a go at varying them next time I try this.

*Thank you to Lester who came up with a better design than mine.

[Myrna O'Hara]

OK I'll be the first to comment and FAV this. It totally quacked me up!!!
How cool is this.

[Carole Imes]

Up the Avon River we go--Quackspeare indeed! I'm still LOLing over this one. Love it, Alison and Lester and a fav for this clever idea.

[Gena Pegg]

This is so cool...don't understand what you did. But I am learning so much from this project. Great fun!

[judith deacon]

Brilliant - I needed a smile this monday morning!....fav

[Cathy Donohoue]

very cool. Quackin Good fun.

[elkehochban]

Haha - you quack me up! ;-)

[Chandru Jain]

3 little ducks! Quacking click!

[Lisa Stein]

This is so charming! How ever did you do this, Alison? Such a delightful, fun image.

[Jennifer C]

thanks for my early morning smile xx

[Rosie Kind]

Like Gena I don't understand what you have done but I think this is brilliant - it would drive me quackers trying to work it out but it's a Fav

[Ariel]

I'm ducking out of this pun fest, but think this is a great photo - perfectly done. (Next time I'm in Stratford I'll have to have a look for some of these.)

[Claire]

So clever and so creative, quacking shot

[Milanie]

These just made me giggle when I saw them! Love the things you think up. Oh to have a mind like that.

[Dione Giorgio]

Great fun shot. Very nicely done.

[👑 AnaZad]

Oh this is too funny, and you are clever. Fantastic.

[Janet]

What a quacker! Well done, Alison (and Lester)!

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@eyesmile @rosiekind @pflaume Thank you. I found the idea some time ago on the internet, can't remember where :( I've been trying to describe how to do this but have been finding it rather difficult to get it to make sense! Basically, it's done on a long exposure and every time you want to move the duck, you cover the lens up. Then you uncover the lens again to record the duck in the new position and cover the lens when you want to move the duck again. Once you've moved the duck to the last position, you stop the exposure after the time the camera needs to record the duck. I did a couple of test shots to start with and found I needed to give the camera 10 seconds per duck . The total exposure time for the full shot was 76 seconds = 3 positions @ 10 seconds each and the other 46 seconds = 2x with the lens covered and me moving the duck to a new position. Hope that makes sense!

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@eyesmile @pflaume @rosiekind 10 seconds per *positioning* of the duck, that is - only one duck was involved and he was not traumatised in any way . :-)

[Rosie Kind]

@dulciknit Thanks for explaining this

[Linda Agne]

Very creative

[photo andi]

AWESOME!

[John Falconer]

Great explanation. I definitely will have t o try it. Thanks for sharing it.

[Angela]

Fantastic!

[Lisa Stein]

Ingenious! Thank you so much for explaining how your created this. I would never have figured it out. :) Congrats on the PP!

[Matt Clendon]

And thrice the plays came forth. I feel I've been exposed to some Shakespearian creativity 10 second-duck-style. Shakespeare looks rather good as a duck I think. I wonder if there's a swan as Shakespeare around anywhere? I mean like a delux rubber duck. Stratford being known for it's swans outside the theatre and along the Avon.

[Jen Hudson]

The brain feels fogged just reading the explanation! Congrats.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

@jennywren It's a lot simpler than my convoluted explanation makes it sound! This is the problem with being a learner trying to explain what I've done. The hardest part was trying to re-position it to get something approaching a tidy line. I cloned a lot of pencil marks out of the shot. :-D

[carol white]

Super creativity!! Great fun!!

[8yearson]

Think I'm a bit late for any quacking quips, but just to marvel at your expertise and to say a quacking fav here too!

[Netkonnexion]

Fun!