multiple exposure

Hi all

Im currently using he 20D. Bit of a dumb question pherhaps but how can i do a multiple exposure ie expose the same frame more than once:o ?? Be grateful for any help here. Ta

Short answer is, you can't. You can take multiple eposures of a scene and merge them in Photoshop.

i know you can on a film camera but never gave it a thought in digital. Thanks oviV

yeoness wrote in post #2229884
Hi all

Im currently using he 20D. Bit of a dumb question pherhaps but how can i do a multiple exposure ie expose the same frame more than once:o ?? Be grateful for any help here. Ta

Using the same frame, No but there is a way to do it. Just make sure that there is absolutely no camera movement. You have to photoshop the rest.

yes you can, now go look it up in the manual..

Shoot 1 image in RAW, then generate 2-3 images with varying exposure to get the colours/details in the areas you want. Overlay them in photoshop and erase/merge through to get what you want.

hmongstang wrote in post #2230708
yes you can, now go look it up in the manual..

no you cant. feel free to go prove me wrong. but you cant IN camera do a multiple exposure.

Ok, it's a picture of ME, my twin, my twin's twin and my twin's twin twin and the fifth one took the photo

OR....

Using tripod, set to self timer and take 4 photos and dashing to wall several times. Using photoshop and create layers and insert on top of each other, but only selecting certain areas of 3 of them, with one layer being the main background.

See what you think.

Mark

Ps, It is the Orkneys in the background.

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someone had a bit too much time on their hands haha.

Are you refering to Exposure bracketing?

I now want to take a photo of just several of Moi sitting all around a table!

Mark

the 580ex flash units can do something like that. It shoots multiple flashes in the same exposure creating something like that.

weka2000 wrote in post #2230771
Are you refering to Exposure bracketing?

i was thinking the samething, i guess i was wrong. hey i don't have a camera. lol

If you underexpose two images by 1 stop each (i.e. 50% of full exposure), then you can layer them in Photoshop using 'Screen'. This is the closest to a classical double exposure. More typically I use layer masking and it's a very long process.

Multiple exposures remain much easier in film. I have an example of a 7-exposure image that I took last year on digital and then duplicated this year on film. The film was exceptionally easy. The digital took hours and hours of post-processing (of a very large file, no less).

Lol. I just cut and paste.