Light Techniques
Multiple Exposures With Digital Photography
Digital Photography is one of the most creative hobbies you can partake in. And sometimes we reach a stage of evolution in our digital photography whereby we want another challenge, or another way to express our creativity. And, undoubtedly, along your digital photography path, you’ll come across a technique called “Multiple Exposures.”
Multiple Exposures is a technique in digital photography whereby you can create a really ingenious effect. You can add colour, darken images, shade whiter areas, change shapes via light alterations etc. It’s really a fun digital photography technique and can give you much scope. For example in digital photography sometimes you will find that noise can interfere with picture quality and with this technique you can tone down the effect of noise.
An example of multiple exposures is taking two digital photography images and each of them to be exposed by one F stop. For example, let’s say that the first digital photos ‘correct’ exposure is F 16. You can take the first photo at F11 and the second one at F 8.
However not all digital cameras offer the ability to create multiple exposures. The digital cameras that can offer multiple exposures are dslr’s such as Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro and S2 Pro, 20d multiple exposure works great and the 30d multiple exposure is great too. You will find the d200,d50, d70, d80 multiple exposures look terrific. Can you create multiple exposures without having more expense of a camera in your digital photography? Good news; the answer is yes.
This is where Photoshop comes in. By adjusting a few things in Photoshop, your digital photography images can become more and more interesting. In Photoshop you can actually create the most beautiful multiple exposures.
One of the first things to do to try this digital photography technique is to make sure you have the right exposure compensation. I won’t go into complicated scientific jargon (light is pretty complicated at a base scientific technique) but what I will say is it’s a precision in digital photography metering that mastery is required. Instead of worrying about this in great detail, just know that in order to get the correct exposure value you may need to apply bracketing to your digital photography images. You can use your manual setting along with the meter to get some images that are a little darker than you would normally have, just for the purpose of this technique.
With multiple exposures it’s not necessary to keep every single photo you take. If you want to give an image more of a certain colour or brightness you can simply bracket accordingly. You can think of this as gaining momentum. You will find that after a while, you look at new eyes towards your digital photography.
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Have fun and happy shooting!
Article by...
Amy Renfrey
Digital Photographer, Digital Photography Teacher & Author
