Experimenting With Multiple Exposures

Lately, I’ve had the feeling that I would like to experiment beyond taking and making ‘straight’ photographs. One of the ideas that I have been playing with has been making in-camera multiple exposures of relatively simple things that I find while walking around. The other day I realized that I was surrounded by fallen leaves on the ground and wanted to see if I could make anything of them.

I took a three-shot in-camera multiple exposure and also saved the three individual images that composed it (there is a setting that allows you to either save or delete the component images once the in-camera composite is completed). I saved the component images because I was interested in seeing if I could make something more compelling than the in-camera composite by opening the component images as layers in Photoshop and playing with the blending modes. In this case, I found that I could not. I was happiest with the in-camera result and processed the single frame to come up with the resulting image.

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Leaves © Howard Grill

I plan to continue to experimenting with this process. There is something interesting and satisfying about not having complete control over how the final frame is composed.

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