What’s Your Preference?

sleepingiant · #1 (**permalink**) 10-15-2009, 02:39 AM

D300
f/5.6 @ 300mm
1/320
ISO 400

Hey everyone. I am relatively new to this forum so I apologize in advance if this has been discussed before. It is a rather simple concept but the possibilities are endless and you never quite know what you will end up with, which I truly love. I guess the only catch is that you need to have a camera that will allow you to shoot multiple exposures. In this case I am using my D300.

The process.

I set my camera so it shoots 3 exposures. This can easily be adjusted to 2 or 4 or whatever your heart desires. Off hand I'm not sure of the limit on my D300 or other cameras.

Next, I looked for what I thought would be interesting shots for the 3 exposures. My personal preference for this particular composition was a crossing sign, a no trespassing sign and of course the train tracks to help give the image some leading lines and depth.

I was careful to adjust the exposures accordingly. I find that it's important to keep the overall contrast somewhat the same otherwise portions will get blown out. If this is what you are going for then by all means do it. I have had some good results from doing this as well.

So once you shoot the last image it combines all three exposures into one shot in camera. Voila! You should now have your triple exposed shot.

A lot of it is trial and error and a lot of it is simply luck and personal taste.

When you get home, at least for me, that is when the fun really begins. In my case, I used lightroom to adjust the colours and exposure and contrast etc... I even tweaked the settings under the camera calibration pane to give the images a cross processed feel.

In the end it's all about how creative you want to be. Any program will do, such as photoshop or aperture or simply leave the image as is, it's your choice. If you don't have a camera with this capability I would suggest you still take a few different shots and try and combine them manually in photoshop and experiment from there.

I hope at least some of you learned something new or are now motivated to see what you and your camera are capable of.

More examples can be found at the links below

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Patrick Chondon Photography | Artistic
Exposure x 3 - a set on Flickr

Nicole · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-2009, 03:53 AM

Nice post

I've had some fun playing with multiple exposures on the D90 (there's a post in this section with one of my double exposures

). I like the subjects that you combined in this. It seems to work quite well with the sort of industrial type of subjects, but I also think that the strong colour tones you added help as well

glick · #3 (**permalink**) 10-15-2009, 06:18 AM

Pretty awesome effect you got there. I must try this!

sleepingiant · #4 (**permalink**) 10-15-2009, 11:44 PM

Thanks Nicole and 'glick'! I'll have to look for your post that you mentioned Nicole. The industrial type theme worked well in this instance as you said. I still find it amazing how much more detail you can bring out of the photos (and scale back as well) by tweaking settings in a program like lightroom. Almost as fun as actually taking the photo.

lyacadajar · #5 (**permalink**) 10-16-2009, 12:53 AM

very creative and interesting....can i also do that to canon 450D?

sleepingiant · #6 (**permalink**) 10-16-2009, 01:09 AM

Unfortunately the Canon 450D does not have that capability. You would have to do it manually in a program like photoshop.

CanonRebelz · #7 (**permalink**) 10-16-2009, 02:31 AM

Good job.. is this a nikon only kinda thing?

Er can Canon Rebel XS(1000D)'s do it?

sleepingiant · #8 (**permalink**) 10-16-2009, 03:25 AM

I know some Canon camera's have this setting but I am fairly certain that the 1000D does not. I could be wrong though, perhaps check your users manual, it would be in there.

Hope that helps!