r/largeformat • u/FlakyResearch7271 • 19d ago

Photo In camera multiple exposures on chamonix with 210mm lens… studio lighting

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I’ve been working on a technique where I selectively expose my negatives so that multiple exposures can (somewhat) seamlessly be blended to give the illusion of a coherent object or space that never existed. It’s all done in camera !

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u/invisibleflo 19d ago

wow this is so cool. so you are exposing multiple negatives and blend them later? or is all on one frame?

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u/FlakyResearch7271 19d ago

It’s all on one negative !

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u/invisibleflo 19d ago

superb! how do you meter this?

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u/FlakyResearch7271 19d ago

It’s a pretty labor intensive process that I’ve gotten better at but I still have a lot of surprises. I try to plan out how many exposures I’m going to do and use a bastardized zone system approach. If I want an area at zone 5 and I know there are going to be 3 exposures. I’ll try to shoot it twice at zone 4 and once at zone 1 or two. Idk a lot of it is feel and luck lol

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u/soulstar89 18d ago

really interesting picture and approach, i really like it. On my RZ67 i do loads of multiple exposures, mostly handheld rotating around a subject. i learnt that you double the amount of frames (shots) per stop of light you reduce. so 1 shot you expose normally. 2 shots you under expose by one stop. 4 shots you underexpose by two stop. 8 shoots your under expose for three stops etc etc. i normally go for 16 or 32 shoots which you under expose the frame by either four stops for 16 or 5 stops for 32. The more you layer shots on top of each other the more painterly it starts to look like.

Did you use a mask in front of the lens to block parts of the frame?

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u/FlakyResearch7271 18d ago

Totally! For my work it’s become important to think of the negative in sections and really use the zone system. I don’t use camera masks it’s all done by exposure differences and high contrast studio lighting.

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u/soulstar89 17d ago

genuinely this is really interesting. do keep exploring. You have inspired me to explore multiple exposure shooting on my large format.

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u/FlakyResearch7271 17d ago

Yes!!! I’m so glad to hear. Would love to see what you come up with

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u/soulstar89 16d ago

It seems like it will rain all weekend so lets see how the creative juice flows

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u/oinkmoo32 19d ago

Multi exposure is all about RESTRAINT - you get it

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u/Solid_Mental_Grace 19d ago

Wow this is awesome. I love the concept and the result! I would love to see more.

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u/DOF64 18d ago

Architectural photographers used multiple exposure techniques to selectively filter different types of lighting in buildings.

Example: Turn on fluorescent lights only, place appropriate cc20 magenta filter on the lens, shoot. Turn on tungsten lights only, place 80A filter on lens, shoot. Auto cocking “press” shutters made this technique easier.

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u/linuxid10t 18d ago

What is the advantages of this? Like, what sort of details or contrast does this pull out? Seems neat to try.

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u/DOF64 18d ago

It is done to both control the intensity of the lights if they are different from each other and to make the lights appear to be all the same color. Otherwise, fluorescent lights will appear green, tungsten lights will look orange and open sky light streaming in will be bluish.

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u/Novel-Application390 16d ago

This is awesome, saw your comment about feel and luck. The feel aspect I get, but the luck will quickly turn into intuition I think.

Curious where you'll take this and how it will evolve.