On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:29:05PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Cory Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > > I heard an interview on a podcast with this woman from Iceland: > > http://www.rebekkagudleifs.com/ ?One of her series of photos that gained her > > a lot of popularity is called Multiplicity. ?In this series, there are > > multiple instances of a single person (usually the photographer herself) in > > each image. ?I found the images interesting and decided to try one with my > > daughter Emily being the subject. ?(here's the fail part) ?I tried using the > > K10's multiple exposure mode and took five shots with Emily in a different > > place on the swing set in each. ?The resulting image is a very nice shot of > > the swing set with no trace of Emily... ?I suppose the camera averages out > > the scene. ?In four of the five shots there is no Emily at any given > > location so the end result is no kid. I have to say, it was a little creepy > > to behold. ? I'm sure the desired result could have been achieved in Photo > > shop but I was excited about the idea of doing it "in camera". ?Bummer. > > > > Cory > > > > I'm pretty sure that Rebekka's using individual shots assembled in PS > via layers, she's a fairly heavy PS user (I used to follow her Flickr > stream back when she was more active over there). I'm not sure you > could do that particular effect in camera unless you're using flash to > expose the subject (which ensures the subject gets full exposure each > time).
Even then, I'm not sure you could do it - not only do you have to make sure that your subject gets full exposure, you also have to ensure that nothing else tries to create an image on that part of the frame during the other exposures, which is considerably more difficult. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
