shooting in series
This is turning into a bit of a personal discovery journey. I went back through a bunch of pictures I made this past Summer, and noticed that I tend to shoot in series - I have quite a few "series" of pictures, getting closer series, all sorts of different angles series, just plain same shot series. This is coming in handy right now.
Both images below are made from composites of pictures made in June of this year. The stop sign picture includes 4 separate shots, the daisy composite includes 3 separate shots.
"stop"
glow daisies
posted by ursula @ 1:48 PM
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10 Comments:
the 'motion' and the stop sign has an obviously appealing juxtaposition. I wonder how it would look if you punched a mask through so that the largest stop sign was the only one you'd see and it would be only from a single layer - i.e., adjust it so only the background/ surroundings are multiple exposures and the stop sign is just static.
The daisies are lovely. All very entertaining and inspiring.
I really do get the feeling, particularly from the daisies and the people shot below, that I'm looking at dream sequences, or half remembered locations. Very cool.
Okay, I'll stop at 3 comments. The insights in to your personal discoveries and thought processes are a lot more interesting to me than the specific mechanics of how you've layered the images.
To be clear though - I want to know about that too, but the more personal thoughts and feelings are a whole lot more educational and interesting than the drier, less personal technical details - keep 'em both coming!
Okay, I lied again. 4th comment/ question. You mentioned that you are shooting in series - are these over multiple days, or single sessions and getting closer ? Is it just a by-product of working one particular subject, or is it revisiting the same ideas on different days, in different lighting, or even just similar subjects ?
As I'm writing this, I'm thinking of all the different ways a series could come together to get used for a multiple exposure shot.
Thank you. I should try the idea with only one stop sign, multiple backgrounds.
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About series: I revisit places and subjects, over and over, different times of day/year, different light, whatever. That's why I usually end up walking alone nowadays, nobody wants to come along anymore. My husband tells me I spend way too much time looking at just one patch of moss. I enjoy it. I've learned a lot about how light works from this.
What I didn't realize is that what I have on my hands is a bunch of groups of similar pictures that lend themselves rather nicely for these experiments in multiple exposures.
The idea of using a series over time for composites is very appealing. I haven't tried that. So far I've just tried series within one shoot. Hmmmm. Back to work.
This is fascinating.
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By the way, how do you get the comments to show right below your posts in your blog? Mine show in a separate window. I tried changing the settings, but it didn't work.
the comments thing needs you to edit the template and add some javascript. If you are interested I can point you to a guide for the steps you need to go through. It is easy if you are comfortable with editing HTML directly. Probably quite strange if you are not familiar with it.
For the inline/ hide comments, look at
this blogger hack link
In particular, the Peek-a-boo comments section. I just edited my blog template to add the changes, it was pretty straight forward.
Ursula, I think dream is a good metaphor for these. In the first picture, the background is perfect for this, but the multiple exposure effect on the stop sigh itself sign doesn't work as well, perhaps because of the text, perhaps because they don't leave a "trail" to follow, if you understand that. I'd like to see one of them much more dominant in this case.
I do like the effect very much on the flowers. They seem the perfect subject for this. It's very dreamy and ethereal.
I got it (to show comments on the same page)!
Thank you!
Neil, thank you. I agree, something isn't right with the stop signs. I don't want to work on that right now, but it should be revisited.
I like the word "ethereal" (and also "ephimeral", "susurrate", and "delicate"). Four words I would love for people to use when looking at my images.
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