Technique Help Please :)

[DannyShack]

Hiya, im doing photography A levels and going down the multiple exposure route and are looking at Pep Ventosa
I just wondered if anyone could tell me what his technique to creating these photos are ?
Does he take multiple images all at different exposures etc and then impose them , or just take one and select parts and play about with them on photoshop.
Be great if anyone knew/ can help me thanks
Here is some of his work
europe | Pep Ventosa Photographs

[LeeR]

Yep, that's what he did; select an area, copy and paste it to a new layer, apply a technique like levels adjust., B&W conversion, etc., and voila'! You have a work of art!...or do you?

[OsmosisStudios]

That's not multiple exposure: it's photo editing. Its a case of using the marquee tool in Photoshop to create sections and altering each one on it's own.

[DannyShack]

Thanks for your help, thats peed of my bonfire since its not multiple exposure haha

[PradBitt]

From his own description:
"multiple shots of each tree were taken while walking around it"
"then blended together and reworked to discover what came of the orbit"

Whilst he probably is doing some manipulations in PS, primarily it is what appears to be multiple exposure blending. Whereby each image is typically underexposed or Exposure Compensated according to how many exposures are intended to be taken so that once blended together it is the correct exposure.

It's probable he has used a digital camera that facilitates Multiple Exposure blending, most likely a Fuji camera (not familiar with models), being that I believe they were the only digital cameras with a Multiple Exposure blending function up until recently (Canon 5DIII and 1Dx now have it too).

Otherwise he did it manually in Photoshop, the manually calculated Exposure Compensated images would all have their own layer, blended in Screen Mode.
example tut here

But being that it appears he has used a LOT of exposures, this adds a higher level of complexity, especially being that you would need to somehow be far more accurate with the exposure stop increments, probably beyond what any camera without a Multiple Exposure function could do. Maybe this is where his photoshop trickery comes in to play...

[jpowers]

Looks like multiple exposure to me, if you can call anything digital multiple exposure. Looks like the effect you'd get if you stack a bunch of images in Photoshop, align them (so the central object is in register), and then use an appropriate blending mode. (Or, tweak the blending by hand.) You wouldn't need to exposure-compensate in the camera, though; that's easily done in Photoshop.

[inkista]

I think it's multiple exposure, but I also think it's heavily manipulated in post to get the painting-like effect. He's not simply layering multiple shots to get that look, that's only part of the technique he's created. Could be fun to explore, though, and an interesting direction to go with collaging multiple images, like Hockney "Joiners." But as a strict "multiple exposure" shot, no.

PradBitt, Nikon dSLRs have had in-camera multiple exposure in them for a while. It's probably what pushed Canon to finally add it into their firmware. Now, if only we could get them to add trap focusing (triggering the shutter when AF is achieved) and focus peaking (liveview coloring of the highest-contrast (in focus) bits of the image, too....