5DIII multiple exposure example

A couple of days ago I was shooting an an old train depot. There was a double door that was full of cracked and flaking paint. I wondered what it would look like to use the multiple exposure mode. So I told the body to do multiple exposures with 9 shots. After the 9th shoot the body puts them together...in a raw format...not a jpg.

So here is an example, granted a poor one, of what you can do with the in body multiple exposure mode.

There's no context to tell me what it would look like with just one exposure. Do you have a shot with only one exposure for reference?

Here is a single unprocessed exposure of the depot door right before trying the multi exposure.

From the examples I have seen, this feature seems about worthless. No offense to the OP, but the example just looks like a big blur or a cool texture.

My experience of multi exposure says that you should keep them as simple as possible. Only a few frames together usually give the best result.

Very interesting results from this feature. Where did the door handle go?

I have to say that I have no idea how to use this feature, or what I would need it for. I saw an example of shooting a city night shot, where they combined the city lights/buildings with a properly exposed night sky (moon and stuff).

Back in the film days, I took a night-time landscape photo with the FD 35 mm f/2 S.S.C. on my Canon EF. I made sure I left the top half of the picture for the black sky. Cooked the shutter without advancing the film, then changed over to the FD 300 mm f/5.6 S.C. and took a photo of the full moon, making sure the moon touched the top of the image and didn't go down below the center.

Today you could easily do something like this in Photoshop or whatever, but it wasn't that easy back in the 70's.

I don't get the point of this "feature". In camera multiple exposures are too limited and can't approach what you can do in post with digital editing.

I guess if you want a quick result, to perhaps print immediately. Otherwise I don't see the point either.

i like that shot, nice texture and subtle color. i like the feature too.

I played around with it once... turned my wife into a ghost...

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/trovatoam/71115​05637/

Interested to see more creative examples of how people are using this feature.

I would think it could be used for some cool shots at the olympics. A way to show the movement or motions of an athlete. Would probably be pretty cool if someone used it on one of the women doing a vault.

Wouldn't this be a cool feature to make backgrounds with? Seems that it would.

The problem when taking photos of people jumping or whatever is that the background will bleed through. You'll need a black background, if you want a number of copies of a person moving about. Otherwise you'll just get these faint ghosts.