Saturday, October 27, 2012

Double Trouble: dltphoto

Nope, this isn't a post about my two adorable girls or that we are having twins.. nope. Never.
This is just about a technique I have seen from the past and thought about revisiting it. Basically its an image stacking process. Back in the day, before computers, people would have stacked/ sandwiched two or three negatives together into an enlarger and the art would have been created, or they could have sandwiched slide or even multiple exposed...
Today, I am simply able to drop one image onto another image and then simply reduce the opacity (see-throughness) of one of the images to allow the rear image to be visible.


Here are my two original images below. one correctly focused and one desperately out of focus. Combined I think they make an interesting image. Perhaps I cold explore the process of editing them more to see if I can make the image MORE pleasing. Just wondering if anyone has any views on this technique?

Wash, Rinse, Repeat! But this time use film!







4 comments:

Wallace said...

As long as your asking about thoughts on this technique. Perhaps a more subtle difference in focus would give more of a soft focus look and you could feel like your back in the 1980's ...TWINS?

DLT said...

I was hoping for the most dramatic effect. I see soooo many OVER edited nasty images butchered by photoshop actions and plugins. i though i might attempt more simplistic editing.

Elizabeth said...

Well..I don't know anything about that effect..though I did try the double negative thing in high school photo class..and never attempted it again...but I do know a little something about twins...congratulations...

DLT said...

Elizabeth. stacking images has become quite easy now in photoshop. next up is to do some multiple exposures in camera, rather than editing later. and I am NOT having twins... nope. never.

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