#Freezing time effect

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spare anchor
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Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to create a nice "frozen in time" effect. Where I want everything in the image to appear "frozen", but the main subject of the image. He can move freely during this freeze. I figured the poses help a lot (freezing mid walk or mid jump etc), and blurring our everything that appears frozen in time helps. Do you guys have any other tips on how to enhance this effect in a GPT-4 prompt?

I've attached the image I got now, about as good as I could get it, but I feel like there's a lot of room for improvement..

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maiden ruin
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Do you have an example of what you're aiming for?

spare anchor
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No unfortunately not, I only know the effect that I am trying to capture, but don't have any examples in mind to use as inspiration. Usually this is done in movies, and much easier to capture than a single shot. The main problem I have is visualising that the boy is not affected by the frozen time, but only his surroundings.

maiden ruin
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It's an interesting artistic ask: with a still age how do you imply motion with with the subject while everything else stands still. That's what you're trying to do right?

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The above looks like the inverse of that

spare anchor
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Yep that's exactly what I am trying to achieve @maiden ruin! I think part of it can be done by freezing items that are clearly in movement (for example, showing a kid that is paused mid air whilst jumping). and I figured blurring everything "paused " could also help this effect, but it's doing the inverse?

maiden ruin
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Blurring implies motion. So right now the picture around him seems to be moving.

spare anchor
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Ah, gotcha! Ok, will get rid of that part then, thanks.

red cove
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You could have someone walk somewhere or touch something they would otherwise never do. Walking just in front of a train (steam train so you can see it is in motion from the some). Reaching out to touch a bird, or a bullet. Or drink from milk spilling from a cup in the air with a straw. I don't know how well it'll be if put to a picture.

Maybe you can focus on the subject, making the rest slightly out of focus, or some other way to make the boy seem different from the surroundings.