Playing With Multiple Exposures

Having gone to Phipps Conservatory with my friends to make photographs several times in the last few weeks, I asked myself what I could do differently this time around. How could I make some images that were not the ‘same old thing’ as I had been making? And ‘the same old thing’ isn’t necessarily ‘bad’…..in fact, I liked a good number of the images I had been making, but didn’t want to end up reshooting the same photos.

My answer to this dilemma was to make multiple exposures.

© Howard Grill

This first image is a two shot multiple exposure of a dressed mannequin and a wall mural of splotches of paint on a black background.

© Howard Grill

This second image is a three shot multiple exposure of palm leaves. However, I didn’t like the left side of the image as much as the right, so I simply mirrored the right side in Photoshop.

It was a fun experiment, and I came away with several photos that I like. But the fun part of in-camera multiple exposures is the loss of control that you have with the results. You just never know exactly what you are going to come away with.

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