D7000 Multiple Exposure

Jon

Senior Member
hello, i just got my d7000 a few weeks ago. i just want to know if anybody had tried playing with the multiple exposure. i tried it but it turned out ghostly. i got better result with my old slr. thanks, guys and great forum.
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
Hi Jon,
Could you post the picture so we can have a look and then maybe give you our point of view?
 

Jon

Senior Member
Hi Marcel, I'll try to take some pics later. But an example would be taking 2 pics of yourself in one exposure. Hopefully showing you have another handsome twin brother but the end result shows 2 "ghosts".
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
for what you are trying to do, you would have to use a black background for it to work with double exposure. Otherwise, the grey or white over the first exposure will create the "ghosts" effect.
 

Jon

Senior Member
It didn't upload file was too large. Anyway, I did try with a black background and it did improve. Now with this limitation, does that mean this will only be possible thru post-processing in photoshop eg. layering?
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
I think so. With multiple exposures, you have to remember that you are starting with a black canvass and adding light on to it. Once you have some light on part of it, the next exposure is not going to remove the light that was already there.
I don't know what your previous experience was with double exposures, but maybe it sounds like you have done it in darkroom working with negatives. Then it is easy to add something on a white background, but once the paper is black, you just can't add no more to it. With photoshop, you are cutting and pasting a layer OVER the existing picture. That is the main difference.
Does this make sense to you?

To upload photos, you first have to resize them using a post processing program (photoshop, paintshop pro, aperture, lightroom). If you limit the size to 1200x1200 and save jpegs, you should not have any problems.
There is only one way to learn: Keep trying.
 
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