Thanks to the prodding of a certain wacko and kinda wierd friend who will remain nameless, but as the initials of TripleYYY, I decided to finally try the Multiple Exposure feature on my camera. My results, we anything but what I expected! These are 5 shot Multiple Exposures, atleast with Nikon, I am simply letting it do the exposure compensation, I would imagine it's the same with other digital camera's that do it.
So what I did was, shoot 5 shots as a wave was coming in. Trying to catch it just as it broke at the biggest point, and then every second or so as it continued on towards me. I thought I would see the initial wave crash, then each subsequent wave crash as I captured those coming in toward me. So I thought I would see a shot with like 5 different wave crashes, each one getting smaller as it hit different rocks on the way on.
But... what I got was something that actually looked like I was shooting with a ND filter and about a 10 second exposure! Wierd! I was shooting at 1/5th of a sec... yet when combined, it looks like a 5 or 10 sec exposure... And this was shot while it was still pretty bright. So my conclusion is, that atleast at the beach, this is a cool way to simulate a 10 sec exposure without having to use ND filters or having to wait until it's super dark. And often a shot can get noisy as it get's darker, so this helps to take care of any noise issue too...
Killer results on the first two Jim (I hate you smug Nikonians...you are kicking Canon butte this year). Pretty damn good results for an auto function. On the last, the tide beat the shutter. BTW, I hope this isn't any "in camera" HDR is it? You know how I hate that stuff
Interesting results Jim - it's not quite identical to a long exposure as you can see from some of the details of the water breaking over the rocks in the first two shots. There might be some very unique potential with this technique once you really learn how to tease out what you can do with it.
Very cool really does have that long exposure look minus any noise, really like the effect you captured here of the wave breaking over the rocks, curious how much PP work did you do on these, or did the multiple exposure help the levels and curves?
These photos are much to clear. Your camera must be broken or something.
Okay, this is a neat effect. It is a bit different than what you would get with the +10 ND filter. Hmmm maybe a +4 ND. There is more detail. I like the effect.
Love the first 2. Very cool effect. It does give the long-ish exposure feel, but less heavy-handedly, and still with wonderful ghostly action in the waves and details left in the rocks.
Tim ONeill wrote:
Killer results on the first two Jim (I hate you smug Nikonians...you are kicking Canon butte this year). Pretty damn good results for an auto function. On the last, the tide beat the shutter. BTW, I hope this isn't any "in camera" HDR is it? You know how I hate that stuff
Thanks Tim! I appreciate the comments.
Yeah, Nikon does have some pretty cool features. I heard a rumor that they were coming out with a new model called the D3tv cause it will be able to pick up and play digital HD television... (Note the "tv" is not to be confused with the confused method a certain camera manufacturer or two use to abbreviate Aperature Priority, instead of the much more common sense method of "A" designating Aperature priority... )
There is more detail. I like the effect.