NikonGear'23

Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 08:23:54

Title: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 08:23:54
Most Nikon DSLR’s support the multiple-exposure function, that is capturing two or more successive exposures on a frame. Also, for those who shoot in RAW format, you can always exploit the image-overlay feature of your Nikon cameras, which borrows the concept of multiple-exposure’s end-result. But with the advantage that the combining process can be done by selecting any of the photos that you want to combine as long as they are shot in RAW.

I’m sharing some photos, please share yours, too. Thank you.


Edit by Admin: Changed thread title slightly so as not to exclude any brand
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 08:29:35
and another one. . .
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 09:45:35
Nice examples of what can be achieved. However, I fail to see the need for introducing yet another term. Why not label it 'multi-exposure' or in-camera composites? The image-overlay is but multi-exposure with Autogain = ON.

As in any variant of composited images, having a plan is the crucial point.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Tristin on February 07, 2016, 10:06:31
I really dig the second image!
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Jakov Minić on February 07, 2016, 10:28:38
All three are really nice!
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 10:44:25
Nice examples of what can be achieved. However, I fail to see the need for introducing yet another term. Why not label it 'multi-exposure' or in-camera composites? The image-overlay is but multi-exposure with Autogain = ON.

As in any variant of composited images, having a plan is the crucial point.

Yes Sir Bjørn, I totally agree that in-camera image overlay is actually multi-exposure. They are located though in separate menu, the multiple exposure is in the shooting menu and the image overlay is in the retouch menu.   
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your Nikon cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Tristin on February 07, 2016, 10:45:41
Nice mage Jakov, I dig the dramatic light range.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 11:10:19
You don't need the camera feature to arrive at "image overlay" results. This is not done in camera at all, nor is it a result of PS.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 11:10:50
here's one of my first few takes. . .
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: John Geerts on February 07, 2016, 11:22:06
Nice examples.

I posted this before in the windows-topic

(http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2647.0;attach=7759;image)
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 11:24:25
You don't need the camera feature to arrive at "image overlay" results. This is not done in camera at all, nor is it a result of PS.

WOW! How was it done then?
Very interesting!
Thanks very much for sharing.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your Nikon cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 11:30:22
Nice examples.

I posted this before in the windows-topic

(http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2647.0;attach=7759;image)

This is a very nice one, John!
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 11:39:04
Below image is actually a double-exposure. One taken during the day without the fullmoon, and another shot at night during a fullmoon.
Both shots, at same focal length to make the final image look realistic.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 11:47:51
Another take on the 'girl & church spire' theme. Same procedure as the previous one. Taken less than 1 m away from the previous shot.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Thomas G on February 07, 2016, 11:50:40
Another take on the 'girl & church spire' theme. Same procedure as the previous one. Taken less than 1 m away from the previous shot.
There is a ceiling light sneeking silently in... I'd think a window pane plays a role beside the obvious.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 11:57:11
Not the point I wished to show. The 'image overlay' approach can be done in the selection of the subject(s), combined in-camera, multiple exposures at the same time or on separate occasions, or done later in PS or similar. Different routes to the same end result. One cannot select a specific approach and pooh-pooh it without considering all other possibilities of getting the essentially same image and content.

A puristic or fundamentalist approach to photography only ties your hands and returns little or no rewards.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Anthony on February 07, 2016, 12:17:11
I like the first two from jeoprix, and the flower woman, because in each case there is a real connection between the two images forming the composite.

I agree with Bjørn that it does not matter how the images have been combined - what matters is the artistic vision.  Also, is it necessary to limit this to Nikon cameras?
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 12:20:25
I agree with Bjørn that it does not matter how the images have been combined - what matters is the artistic vision.  Also, is it necessary to limit this to Nikon cameras?

No, not at all. Where did you get that impression? Most cameras these days allow forms of multiple exposures I think.

Feel free to contribute with examples from any brand.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 12:43:10
No, not at all. Where did you get that impression? Most cameras these days allow forms of multiple exposures I think.

Feel free to contribute with examples from any brand.

Yes Sir, most cameras nowadays allow this multi-exposure thing.

Everyone is very welcome to post their photos taken or done from any brand.
But in my humble opinion, maybe we could off-limit those done in PS, as that will be considered more of some kind of graphics art, rather than pure photography.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Thomas G on February 07, 2016, 12:48:51
Yes Sir, most cameras nowadays allow this multi-exposure thing.

Everyone is very welcome to post their photos taken or done from any brand.
But in my humble opinion, maybe we could off-limit those done in PS, as that will be considered more of some kind of graphics art, rather than pure photography.
In this case you may want to change the thread title accordingly.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 12:49:42
I beg to disagree on that. Where in the work flow the additional image(s) enter is immaterial.  To be clear: I do prefer some kind of early stage merging, possibly in-camera, as this tends to reduce the processing workload overhead. But this is from a perspective of being short on time, not based on principle. As I already exemplified, 'layering' can be done in so many different ways and I used the various techniques a lot in my film days too. Way before anyone dreamt of PS.

We haven't even started to discuss beam splitters and mirrors. Superimposing frames is in photographic terms really old hat.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Thomas G on February 07, 2016, 12:54:47
Not the point I wished to show. The 'image overlay' approach can be done in the selection of the subject(s), combined in-camera, multiple exposures at the same time or on separate occasions, or done later in PS or similar. Different routes to the same end result. One cannot select a specific approach and pooh-pooh it without considering all other possibilities of getting the essentially same image and content.
A puristic or fundamentalist approach to photography only ties your hands and returns little or no rewards.
OK. I was just curious about the technique - this is an area of photography I find very rewarding to explore.
There is a German term, 'Bildgebende Verfahren', which I find very apropriate regarding this topic.
As so often there comes a sense of technology with it while the path to aquire the desired result is entirely open.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 12:55:28
In this case you may want to change the thread title accordingly.

Oh, yes. It should have been, "Multiple-exposure photos, please share yours.
But then, I have no idea how to change the thread title, or if it is really possible to change it.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Anthony on February 07, 2016, 13:16:51
No, not at all. Where did you get that impression?
From the title of the thread.

I don't have any to contribute, yet, but it is an interesting idea and I will do some experiments.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 07, 2016, 13:21:42
I beg to disagree on that. Where in the work flow the additional image(s) enter is immaterial.  To be clear: I do prefer some kind of early stage merging, possibly in-camera, as this tends to reduce the processing workload overhead. But this is from a perspective of being short on time, not based on principle. As I already exemplified, 'layering' can be done in so many different ways and I used the various techniques a lot in my film days too. Way before anyone dreamt of PS.

We haven't even started to discuss beam splitters and mirrors. Superimposing frames is in photographic terms really old hat.

Point well-taken. Thank you for clarifying and taking time to at least enlighten us by your explanation.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 07, 2016, 13:32:57
From the title of the thread.

I don't have any to contribute, yet, but it is an interesting idea and I will do some experiments.

I missed that thread title. I'll change it.

*Done*
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Jacques on February 07, 2016, 18:22:25
This is just an experiment, I have many images of the local weir, frozen water, milky water after various long exposure shots but I wanted to attempt to capture a mixture of the both, some defined details combined with a certain amount of blur in the faster flowing water, this image was achieved  using the multiple exposure and then combining into one frame option in the camera.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1645/24779978395_ee54dbc852_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 08, 2016, 02:18:55
A fabulous image, Jacques!
I like the resulting effects, and the amount of details is extra-ordinary.
Nice try on your experiment.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 08, 2016, 02:33:00
Sharing another image. . .
(A silhouette shot of an engineer analyzing things on the computer, and combined in-camera with a photo of a power plant.)
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Mongo on February 08, 2016, 04:40:48
In the days of sandwiched slides
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Anirban Halder on February 08, 2016, 06:08:13
This is going to be a great thread. I'm sure Jakov has couple hundreds contributions handy for this thread exclusively.  :D
Bjørn - those image overlays are beautiful. Are those reflections on glass? Or that's what I think.
John - the window shot is unique.
Mongo - is that shot from slides? Very cool!
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: jeoprix on February 08, 2016, 08:05:16
A multi-exposure photo, about 8 shots combined in-camera to produce one final image.

Happy Chinese New Year! 
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Mongo on February 08, 2016, 08:43:39
...............
Mongo - is that shot from slides? Very cool!

Anirban, it is not a multiple exposure in the traditional sense of that term. It is a few slides of a subject "sandwiched"  i.e. stacked on top of each other and then photographed straight through the stack of slides. In a sense, it is one exposure of a collection of prior exposures.

Unfortunately, Mongo should have taken his time with it and have done a better job - you can see the defects of misalignment in this example.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Jakov Minić on February 08, 2016, 10:08:09
Anirban, yes I do have a few of these and I have mostly shared them already.
I guess there's nothing wrong in posting them again :)

 
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Tristin on February 17, 2016, 09:44:14
(http://i.imgur.com/jiv7l3Y.jpg)

Nikkor 105mm f/1.8 Ai-s + 5T @ f/5.6 & f/1.8
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on February 17, 2016, 10:18:16
I assume this composited image hail from the b/w graveyard photo shown elsewhere? Can confirm now the flowers indeed are sorrels (Oxalis), but as the genus is huge, can't provide a specific identification.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Tristin on February 17, 2016, 10:24:30
No, this is on the edge of a wetland right next to the ocean about 25 miles from the cemetary I shot recently.  These flowers are just blooming everywhere around here.
Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: Alaun on March 08, 2016, 21:20:41
Played a little bit with double exposures last weekend, seems to be nice :)

Title: Re: Multiple-exposures, image-overlays from your cameras, please share yours.
Post by: HCS on March 08, 2016, 22:25:04
Played a little bit with double exposures last weekend, seems to be nice :)

Careful Werner, you could get addicted  ::)
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Nicole on October 05, 2016, 09:03:02
I like the the samples that are posted here.

Some multiple-exposure trials. Any suggestions for more applications?

Thanks,
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Jakov Minić on October 05, 2016, 09:29:37
Werner and Nicole made nice multiple exposure images. I must say :)
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Frank Fremerey on October 05, 2016, 09:42:30
I like the the samples that are posted here.
Some multiple-exposure trials. Any suggestions for more applications?
Thanks,

Wow. Reconstructing in Escher Style. Very well done.
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: simato73 on October 05, 2016, 23:23:10
Star trail made with ~150 exposures overlaid in lighten mode.
Sardinia September 2016

Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: pluton on October 06, 2016, 05:54:24
I often forget to turn off the camera multi exposure setting.  However, the accidents are often more interesting than the 'deliberates'.
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: simato73 on October 06, 2016, 08:11:00
I often forget to turn off the camera multi exposure setting.  However, the accidents are often more interesting than the 'deliberates'.

This one is too good to be accidental.
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 06, 2016, 08:21:27
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/430/19835581721_2afbdebc8b_o.jpg)

2 IR images
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 06, 2016, 08:23:41
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/536/19076558109_6eb99f6b98_o.jpg)

2 IR images
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Frank Fremerey on October 06, 2016, 08:31:46
I often forget to turn off the camera multi exposure setting.  However, the accidents are often more interesting than the 'deliberates'.

What a lucky accident! Wow!
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Frank Fremerey on October 06, 2016, 08:32:53
2 IR images

very well constructed shot & emotionally appealing!
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 06, 2016, 08:39:52
thank you Frank

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/561/19306205501_1c75e1d957_o.jpg)

multiple IR images
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: pluton on October 06, 2016, 08:54:48
Fons, your "2 IR images" images are pleasingly complex.  I like the first one.  The old documentary title "The Sky Above and the Mud Below"  comes to mind.
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 06, 2016, 15:49:31
thank you Keith
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Akira on October 06, 2016, 21:12:58
I also like the first of the 2 IR.  I feel as if I'm hearing various sounds...
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Nicole on October 07, 2016, 18:01:03
@ Simato73 – I like the star trail. Can you please explain a little more about the 150 exposures overlaid in lighten mode?

@ Pluton – nice accident. I also had forgotten to turn off the multiple exposure setting and I took it as a challenge to make some pictures.

@Fons - #47 is my favourite

Thanks Jakov and Frank. 
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 07, 2016, 18:26:11
thank you Akira

thank you Nicole
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: beryllium10 on October 08, 2016, 07:11:00
Fons, I really like the IR pink car overlay! 

I also like how old, dormant threads on this site suddenly pop up again, when someone wandering through the pages finds one they hadn't seen before and posts a contribution.

Here is mine. From 2010, the last time we had a really big salmon return through the fish ladder at the Ballard Locks in Seattle.  I made these after discovering Bjorn's naturfotograf site. He shows some photos made by loading 3 separate images into each of the RGB channels in Photoshop.  In the composite stationary objects turn gray (R=G=B), but things in motion get an RGB colour.  After blending these I went wild with the RGB curves.

John
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 08, 2016, 07:51:47
Lovely fishes, John,

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5795/29555086083_b90cb70153_o.jpg)
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: BW on October 08, 2016, 08:51:22
Not sure I understood the explanation John, but that doesnt stop me from liking the result :)
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: bobfriedman on October 08, 2016, 11:21:14
(http://www.pbase.com/bobfriedman/image/163785781/original.jpg)

(http://www.pbase.com/bobfriedman/image/162218321/original.jpg)

(http://www.pbase.com/bobfriedman/image/162088198/original.jpg)
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: John G on October 08, 2016, 18:03:19
Liking very much your images Bob, there is a nice humor in the third image.
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: bobfriedman on October 08, 2016, 20:31:08
Liking very much your images Bob, there is a nice humor in the third image.

thank you... they were just for fun.

(http://www.pbase.com/bobfriedman/image/158768129/original.jpg)
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Alaun on August 07, 2017, 18:51:40
Two recent trials:

Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: bobfriedman on August 07, 2017, 20:06:44
 By the way I just realized that all my contributions to this thread may not have exactly supported the title since they were post processing composites as such they were not right out of the camera. 
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on August 07, 2017, 21:02:24
This, however, is done directly in camera ....

Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: bobfriedman on August 07, 2017, 22:47:19
My apologies if that was th intent.
Title: Re: [Theme] Multiple-exposure, image-overlay from your camera, please share yours.
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on August 07, 2017, 22:50:51
Not necessary, Bob. I freely admit it is often easier to join separate images than doing the multiple exposures in the "purist" fashion. After all, it is the outcome and ideas behind the result that count.