 Ryan Chai |
How To Do a Double Exposure? Okay, I understand the part about multiple exposures adding density to the film. So I guess that my question is has anyone done a 2 frame mulitple exposure? i.e. The famous huge moon setting over a beautiful landscape? Do I meter normally for the landscape, take the picture, wait for the moon to rise attach my tele and expose the moon? How do I make sure the moon is going to show up on the right part of the frame since I am changing my compostition? Any input or tricks?
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pcmlphotography.com - Pamela C.M Lammersen Contact Pamela C.M Lammersen Pamela C.M Lammersen's Gallery |
Hi Ryan There was a wonderful article in the jan/feb issue of Outdoor Photogapher about double exposing the moon, also about 'painting' within time exposure. Maybe try to find this on line www.outdoorphotographer.com. The article was written by Bill Sharpsteen (he does have a web site www.billsharpsteen.com). In the article he gave all sorts of tips and tricks which I can't wait to try soon as it gets warmer. Good luck
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Shoot the landscape and then shoot the moon with it in a spot in the frame where there was empty sky with the landscape shot. I'm assuming that the landscape is at night too.
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Ryan Chai |
The landscape would be shot during the sunset, then I would wait till the moon was out. Should I use sunny 16 rule or my spot meter? Thanks
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Jordan |
I would think both shots would have be at night, leaving the portion of the sky where you want the moon to be black, then take the shot of the moon with black around it to fit in the picture of the landscape. It would probably look more natural that way. I too have looked into doing double exposure.
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Bob Cammarata |
The enclosed example was triple-exposed, with a red, blue, and yellow filter applied during each time the shutter was released. The total time was equal to what it would have been with just one exposure. For the moon shots, I would expose the moon first, using the sunny 16 rule, (or one stop over, if you like a brighter moon with a little less detail), then re-compose,... making sure that the moon will show up in the frame where there is empty sky.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
A bright sky, even if it's sunset, is going to make the moon look too faded because of the overlap of the blue sky, or whatever color it is at sunset. If you want it to look clean, it would be better to do it with a dark sky. And the f/16 for the moon makes it look too dull to me. To make it look more how the eye sees it, I would prefer to go about 1&1/2 or 1 over that. And you can make multiple exposures in any light, but having too much overlap from other images makes them look too messy. Like the rocks didn't come out very well.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
A bright sky, even if it's sunset, is going to make the moon look too faded because of the overlap of the blue sky, or whatever color it is at sunset. If you want it to look clean, it would be better to do it with a dark sky. And the f/16 for the moon makes it look too dull to me. To make it look more how the eye sees it, I would prefer to go about 1&1/2 or 1 over that. And you can make multiple exposures in any light, but having too much overlap from other images makes them look too messy. Like the rocks didn't come out very well.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
A bright sky, even if it's sunset, is going to make the moon look too faded because of the overlap of the blue sky, or whatever color it is at sunset. If you want it to look clean, it would be better to do it with a dark sky. And the f/16 for the moon makes it look too dull to me. To make it look more how the eye sees it, I would prefer to go about 1&1/2 or 1 over that. And you can make multiple exposures in any light, but having too much overlap from other images makes them look too messy. Like the rocks didn't come out very well.
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Sara L. Tanner |
Hi Ryan, Do you make your own prints? If so my advice is to take both shots separately. Then you can expose the landscape onto the photopaper and dodge the sky. Then expose the moon onto the photopaper and dodge the landscape. This way niether the moon or your landscape will come out faded :)
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Ryan Chai |
I do have a darkroom for B&W but I don't have any E6 equipment, and a I didn't really want to scan the slides so doing the multi exposure incamera makes more sense to me, but thanks. Ryan :)
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