Wednesday, April 26, 2023

A Double Exposure for Humpday


Multiple exposures are interesting in this age of photo post-production in software. But the thing is, if you create your multiple exposures in the camera, you have to deal with chance operations, to coin a phrase. And, that is part of the fun of it, dealing with randomness. It can lead to plenty of rubbish, certainly, but the surprises are so worth it! In fact, the double exposure feature is one of the first things I test out on a new camera. Turns out Olympus, Canon, Nikon, and Pentax all have somewhat different implementations of the double exposure, which is another excuse for owning multiple cameras (should one be needed). For example, Pentax allows up to 999 images in one multiple exposure! And then there is the case of chemical photography. In the exposure above, I combined a photograph of the television screen with a woodland shot taken the next morning.