I'm surprised at your results as much as you were.
I'm intending to try that with motorsports, I'm sure I get entirely different results
So was each shot 20% (opacity?) less than the subsequent? I did some reading and I'm not quite clear of the priority.
Rags
Hey Rags,
With Nikon, you chose Multiple Exposure in the camera... you can choose how many frames you want, and it does the rest automatically. So, I could guess what the camera is doing, but I can't swear for positive. Using 20% opacity for a 5 shot multiple exposure would make sense though.
Thanks! I think you could get some really cool effects with motor sports for sure.
alichty wrote:
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.
Looking forward to another round of your results.
Alan
Thanks Alan, I appreciate the comments. TripleYYY keeps prodding at me, so hopefully I will remember to do this more when I am out shooting...
DonH wrote:
Darn! From your title I thought you had found a nudist's beach.
Looks like a cool in-camera feature to experiment with. #1 does it for me.
Hey Don, now there a few nudist's beaches down here, though I have not yet ventured there... but you have a good point, now that could really make for multiple Exposure!
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?
Ray Still
Hey Ray, Thanks! I did very little PP on this, just the normal stuff. With the angle I was shooting, the rocks were a bit dark, so I used Nikon's DLighting to pull some shadow detail out, and I used just a bit of shadow recovery in Photoshop. The Multiple Exposure didn't really chane the exposure setting. I simply shot it at the same settings I was using for my normal single shots. The camera changed the opactity (I guess) of each layer as needed in order to blend them. So, the histogram on the multiple exposure shot, looked just the same as it had been looking for the single shots I had been shooting.
ajkessler wrote:
Cool technique Jim. Are you using the stacking technique Floris wrote about (...2 years ago or something? geez time flies)
Thanks AJ! This was done all in camera. There is no Floris technique, no Photoshop work, nothing. I simply chose the Multiple Exposure option on my camera, set it to use 5 exposures, and then it did the rest.I simply had to shoot each of the 5 shots for it to use.
Very cool technique. Wished Canons did that. That is how I get multiple exposures of lightning with film cameras. It has always bothered me that Canon Digital cameras do not do this.
Which Nikon are you using for this? All of them do this. Almost tempted to look into getting a Nikon now...but would not give up all my glass with the EOS system.
Would be just the storm chasing camera.
KKapple wrote:
Very cool technique. Wished Canons did that. That is how I get multiple exposures of lightning with film cameras. It has always bothered me that Canon Digital cameras do not do this.
Which Nikon are you using for this? All of them do this. Almost tempted to look into getting a Nikon now...but would not give up all my glass with the EOS system.
Would be just the storm chasing camera.
I am using a Nikon D700 for this. I believe most of the recent Nikons have this feature, though i am not sure when it started. Yeah, I wouldn't switch systems just for that feature, course there are a lot of other reasons you might want to switch...
It would be interesting to see how it might do with storms and lightning. Though I am afraid as the opacity of each layer is changed, you might end up decreasing the brightness of the lightning strikes... It would be interesting though to see.
vibhav wrote:
Very nice Jim... The first two look awesome and you propose a nice trick for long exposures with water...
Do you mind sharing the technique you used for merging various exposures? Thanks!
Thanks so much! I used the multiple exposure feature that is built into my Nikon D700 camera. So no merging, none of that, this was all done in the camera.
It is interesting and the shots are great, Jim. I started to play the trick with slides and forgot all about it when I bought the first DSLR 5 years ago. Thanks for showing and reminding me to do this game sometime.
BTW, can you vary the focus between the shots?
JimFox wrote:
I am using a Nikon D700 for this. I believe most of the recent Nikons have this feature, though i am not sure when it started. Yeah, I wouldn't switch systems just for that feature, course there are a lot of other reasons you might want to switch...
Jim
Thinking...thinking...nope, thats the only reason I could see to switch.
nugeny wrote:
It is interesting and the shots are great, Jim. I started to play the trick with slides and forgot all about it when I bought the first DSLR 5 years ago. Thanks for showing and reminding me to do this game sometime.
BTW, can you vary the focus between the shots?
Bob
Hey Bob, Thanks!
Each shot is a totally individual shot, so yes, you could refocus, change the composition, zoom in or out, change the exposure even. It's very flexible!
Beautiful technique and I agree with the others on regard to the two first ones.
I used the technique with a borrowed D200 in the Everglades on grass that was being moved in the wind. It came out spectacular.
Thank you for explaining the technique. All I need now is a camera that can do that.
nugeny wrote:
It is interesting and the shots are great, Jim. I started to play the trick with slides and forgot all about it when I bought the first DSLR 5 years ago. Thanks for showing and reminding me to do this game sometime.
BTW, can you vary the focus between the shots?
Bob
Hey Bob, Thanks!
Each shot is a totally individual shot, so yes, you could refocus, change the composition, zoom in or out, change the exposure even. It's very flexible!
What ever effect you were hoping for, Jim, it certainly turned out well. It's a beautiful comp, and I really like the soft pink coloration in the sky. Always fun to try new techniques.
Interesting idea Jim. I like the way that it turned out here. With the canons, you have to shoot the exposures and then blend them with a software program. Interesting feature with some nice results.
Using a camera that doesn't have the feature, would you take 5 well exposed images and reduce the opacity down to 20%? Or would you use some blending modes on underexposed images?
Fantastic results!! I think what accounts for the long exposure looking water is more like your 1/5s exposure. With several shots stacked it'll get even smoother.
finnianp wrote:
Using a camera that doesn't have the feature, would you take 5 well exposed images and reduce the opacity down to 20%? Or would you use some blending modes on underexposed images?
I am surmissing that is what they are doing. It will be interesting for those of you who don't have Mulitple exposure built in to try it. I would guess that the blending mode would stay the same.
I am not sure I would try underexposing like we did with film. Other then multiply, I am not sure of a blending mode that would then increase the exposure with each layer blended.
