A Day At The Museum

When making multiple-exposure images, particularly abstract ones, it is helpful to have colors and contrasts to photograph. I live not too far from an art museum, where there are lots of both. So, I decided it would be a great place to experiment further with multiple-exposure techniques, which are fairly new to me.

This first image is constructed from two multiple-exposure images, with each exposure of the multiple being a very small segment of different pieces of artwork, as well as a mirrored ‘straight’ image layered on top. I like the abstract shapes that are open to interpretation. I saw a pagoda in the middle, while others have seen a beast with teeth and eyes (and I can see that as well).

© Howard Grill

This next image was made not by photographing artwork, but by making multiple exposures using blending modes along with subsequent Photoshop adjustments, of blocks of color that were painted onto a cinder block wall as you went up some of the stairs in the museum. I could tell that the security guards were rather confused as to why I was taking photos of a wall :)

© Howard Grill

I enjoy that you can make unique images without traveling very far from home. Of course, abstract and impressionistic work isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I am finding it quite enjoyable and liking the results I have been able to achieve so far. I plan to try to use these techniques for some representational work as well, meaning imagery where the subject may be blurred or portrayed in a somewhat abstract way, but is still recognizable.

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