Taken in a friend's garden, working on using multiple exposure in camera. There must be a better way to do these to remember where the exact focal point was from image #1 to align image #2 so that the composition makes sense. I haven't figured that out yet.
LR seems to have fixed itself after I let it rest a few days. Weird. Maybe it got jealous of my using Aperture?
Love how you have managed to get all those red poppies in the centre of the 2nd images flower. Taffy, would using single point focus help get the same focus overlaying.?
I have never tried this as my old camera wouldn't do it but I think my Canon 5D Mark 111 does. I love this image Taffy especially the poppies in the middle of the flower. Must have a try - you have inspired me! Fav!
Multiple exposures in camera are a complete mystery to me. In fact, I don't even know if my camera will do it. Must investigate. But this looks lovely...very mysterious, ethereal and intriguing.
@karlow75 I think you'll find it's easy to do it technically (button is in the menu screen under tools I think), but the hardest is figuring out where to frame the second layer. Then, in processing, you have to increase exposure and contrast to bring out both layers if you want more definition. The camera turns layer 1 into a very fuzzy and light background.
Neat capture! My camera can't do double exposures but my old film camera could and did when I did't remember to move the film forward. These were alwYs neat accidents. Love your recreation! Well done!
@olivetreeann I actually do like the challenge of setting it up compositionally within the camera as I take the two shots. BUT, I admit it is very frustrating most of the time!
I just think you get a better result out of camera. The only in camera one I took was a guy on a bike and I just stood still and he was moving. In photo shop you can move them around to get them lined up as you wish, you can use a mask to block out some of the things that you don't want and you can use blending modes. Seems the only way to go especially for what you are trying to do here. But if anyone can figure it out in camera it is you.
How interesting this has turned out, I love how the red poppies look like stamens in the large flower. I wish my camera could do double exposures, I tried once on a Canon 5D and agree it takes practice to get it right.
@elaine55 It's a bit of luck when you do this in camera as it's impossible to actually line up the shot. There may be a way to do it using LV that would allow me to see the previous image...lots to learn!
@genealogygenie The field in the background was where I took both shots. It's actually a friend's garden. I took the broad view first (with the 105 macro), and then focused in for a macro of the single flower.
read up on it.