Project 5: Multiple Image Techniques

Multiple Exposure:

Out of the three multiple exposures I edited in Photoshop, this one is definitely my favorite. I took these pictures up in Washington Park on a morning field trip. To take these photos, I set my camera on a tripod in front of the bench and set a 10 second timer, enough time for me to get into a new position (hint: there are four of me in here, see if you see them all). Once in Photoshop, I put a screen on three of the layers. From there, I adjusted the brightness, contrast, and exposure to darken the pictures from the screening. Then I imported it to Lightroom where I gave it the final touches by making it B&W and then giving it a black vignette for ghostly effect.

This is another multiple exposure picture that I really like. I took it in the halls of Lincoln. I was messing around with interesting ideas for pictures by setting up someone else's camera on a tripod in front of my camera. I set them in the middle of the hall and started taking pictures. It was almost by accident that I got what I did by having the moving people blurred. I thought it could look really cool so I imported to Photoshop and applied a screen to the pictures and then adjusted the colors and brightness to bring out all the elements of each picture. In Lightroom I added the finishing parts by increasing the color contrast.

Panorama:

This panoramic picture was taken at Washington Park at the same time as the ghostly multiple exposure. I had my camera on a tripod on the road and slowly turned it, taking a picture every time there was a new half of landscape on the camera's screen. In this panorama, there is a total of about eight pictures molded together to create it. To make it, I simply used Photoshop's panorama function to blend them together and then put it back in Lightroom to add the vignette and boost the colors and contrast.

HDR:

This HDR photo was created by blending five pictures of this same scene, but each picture had a different level of exposure. I simply took these in my brother's room and sat my camera on the desk to keep it still. In Photoshop I just used the HDR function to create the picture you see here. Back in Lightroom I enhanced the blacks, a little fill light, and slightly decreased the saturation while increasing contrast.