Double exposures?

[kellieprinzel]

Can the XSi do double exposures? I'm not talking about taking two photos and editing them in PS but on the camera is there a way to do that?

A friend of mine was showing me how he found out how to do that on his D60 and I got jealous.

[Grimes]

Not that I have heard of, and not sure why you are against doing it in Photoshop. You'd have a ton of control over all the variables in Photoshop.

[bohdank]

No.

[kellieprinzel]

Because I'm not very good with photoshop. I'm not a huge fan of it anyway. Maybe when I start school it'll be different but for now, I don't use it much besides for the simple things.

[jra]

Doing it in PS is much more effective than allowing the camera to do it for you. You have much better control over each exposure and how you decide to blend them. The only downside, it takes a bit more time then allowing the camera to blend the images (and the XSi can't do it anyways ;) )
As far as not being good with PS, this is a very very easy thing to do in PS and would only take a moment. If you need to know how to do this, just ask....I'm sure someone can jump in and explain.

[hockeyplaya13]

I'd like to know how to do it. Never done it before.
Thanks!
Scott

[BradM]

To just say no, or that it can only be done in Photoshop is incorrect, any digital body can take double, triple or however many of shots you might want in a single frame.

The technique involves a dark room or area, the camera tripod mounted and shutter locked open and then flashing a subject perferably with the flash in hand. Then re-pose the subject and flash again, continue until you get the image you care to.

Your flash should be dialed down significantly so that the total number of flashes would equal the exposure you are looking to get. You can also light the surrounding area like in a home and get multilpe images of yourself or another in differing poses, clothes or actions. This isn't an uncommon technique.

Here is an example that I took of a buddy on the 4th of July just fooling around while awaiting the fireworks to start. Very little post was required mainly removing some reflections that appeared in one of the bodies that was captured prior to the 2nd body overlaying it.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/Bradklr/toddfightsmall.jpg

[Grimes]

Interesting method, but this requires the use of flash. If you wanted a double exposure of say a landscape or something in daylight, you'd need to merge in software later.