playing around with multiple exposures

 

During this week’s photography prac, my teacher introduced me to multiple exposures on my DSLR. I’m currently using a Nikon D750 and she showed me the settings and let me experiment taking double exposure shots. I really struggled at the start, finding it hard to balance out the background with the main subject. But when I handed it to my friend he took this photo shown above and we realised I had been overexposing and underexposing the wrong images.

I had the idea that the subject image needed to be underexposed whilst the “background” image needed overexposing. To my embarrassment… it turned out to be the other way around.

Anyway, I find this photography technique intriguing and hope to soon find opportunities to test out and experiment the potential of this technique. I have tried multiple exposure “styles” before but only in post production.

One photo is of my friend on a ferry to Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong, the photo I blended in to her figure was a city night shot of Dotonbori, Osaka. So, obviously I had taken these two photos separately and photoshopped them together, giving me the freedom to adjust the brightness of each photo, colour correct, crop, etc. I guess with the current experience and knowledge I have, I prefer this technique of having two separate images to mash together because I have the creative freedom to adjust each image. However, I’m still open and excited to learn the possible images I can create with the multiple exposure setting on my camera.