Weekly Challenge Nov 18-Dec 1: Multiplicity

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Browncoat

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Multiplicity

Multiplicity
Multiplicity
Weekly Challenge Nov. 18 - Dec. 1

Your challenge this week is to clone yourself! There are several good tutorials out there on the internet if you don't know how to accomplish this, so check around. This challenge will also have some special guidelines outside of the normal rules:

  • You must clone living things. Photograph yourself, your spouse, a friend, or even the family pet. Entries of "objects" will not be valid for this challenge.

  • Ignore rule #4 for this challenge. In the spirit of the theme, multiple entries will be accepted! Increase your chances of winning by submitting as many as you like!
Be sure to visit the Weekly Challenge Rules & Guidelines for more information. This thread will be closed on December 1st...so get those photos in!


The Rules

  1. Photos must be posted to this thread in order to be considered for the challenge.
  2. Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread and taken by you! Because not all EXIF data can be verified, we will use the honor system here.
  3. Challenges will be judged solely by the winner of the previous week. There will be no individual voting.
  4. Only one photo entry per member, for each challenge.

There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Challenge, unless specifically noted by the site administrator. This is a member-run contest, and the purpose of the Weekly Challenge is to encourage member participation on the forums and to keep you taking pictures!

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited/straight out of the camera, it does not matter. You are left with complete freedom to do whatever genre of photography you wish to do, and your own interpretation of the challenge subject.
 

Browncoat

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A few other notes: Notice the challenge dates. This challenge is officially OPEN, so post away!

Please read and understand rule #2, which states that any photo submitted must be taken during the dates specified. The purpose of a weekly challenge is to give you something to photograph each week, not submit old photos that are months or even years old.

There have been a few violations of this rule lately, and they've kind of been allowed to fall through the cracks. We are not trying to be overly strict with rule enforcement here, this is supposed to be a fun activity that gets those creative juices flowing and keeps you shooting. However, it isn't fair to others when rules are broken.

Please do not submit old photos for weekly challenges. There are other places on the forum to share your shots.
 

AxeMan - Rick S.

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I have never heard of this before, nor have I ever tried this. This is my first attempt at this and it's down and dirty. Lighting is two 40 watt bulbs in the fixture over the table. Please excuse the messy house and bad hair day, I needed a lot of little fine elements to blend in to see if I could really do this weeks challenge. I don't have Photoshop CS* so scripting and stacking are not available to me in Photoshop Elements 8. Now that I know I can do this I'll be coming back with a more quality photo(s). Don't be afraid of this weeks challenge, it's so easy a caveman could do it.
 

Browncoat

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Awesome work! This should be a fun challenge, I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Just as AxeMan said, this looks a lot more difficult than it really is.
 

Richard500

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This is great! I have only just picked up this technique from my latest "Digital Photo" Magazine but only had a chance to try one photo. I know I will need a tripod for this as the slightest movement is magnified ten fold in the finished pic! So, fingers crossed. Great photos so far though....
 

Browncoat

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wow, any tutorial on how to make this?

Google: multiplicity photography tutorial/how to/video. There are lots of examples out there.

Think of this as "sequence photography". We all did this when we were kids...remember making home-made animation? You would draw different stick figures on different sheets of paper. And then when you flipped through all the pages, it looked like your figure was in motion. The same principal applies here, only we're just merging several images of a person in different positions of the same scene into one image.

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The scene above shows action, and may put this into better perspective. I'm certain that you can imagine yourself behind the camera here. Your friend is climbing all over this rock, and you are taking multiple exposures. As you thumb through your image previews on your camera's LCD, you can clearly see the path your friend took. Now, merge those all into one image and you have something like the above.

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Here (and in AxeMan's photo as well) the idea was to create a normal scene of a group of people doing something...only with the added twist that it's the same person. If you have a tripod and remote, use them. Consider how you want your final scene to appear, then position yourself and take a photo. Reposition yourself and take another photo, and so on. You can get really fancy and even put different clothes on for each position or show physical contact.

Good luck!
 

ohkphoto

Snow White
How are you all doing this? . . . with the Nikon multiple exposure feature, or stacking and masking in photoshop?
 

AxeMan - Rick S.

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I'm trying to use the layers mask. But find myself using layers edit and copy cut and paste more. I use the Lasso Tool and take enough of a chunk of the photo I'm coping that I have something in the back round so I have something to line it up by. After I paste it I zoom in real tight to make my line up. Then come back with a med size feather eraser and go around the copied image. Then do the same for the next image. Maybe more of an explanation than you were looking for but just trying to explain my technique to others.
 
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khawkins2001

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I'm not a big post-processing user, but this is a fun challenge. I used Paintshop Pro Photo x3 layering. I get the since there is an easier way, but I couldn't find much assistance in the user manual and/or the web. Here's my first attempt at this. :)
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Richard500

Senior Member
Well here is my little effort! An Argument with myself...... Hope its worthy of the competition.

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It's taken me as long to figure out how to post this as it took me to make it!! Sorry about the lame post asking for help as the solution turned out to be more obvious that I thought.

Post Script: I should have said that I created this using Layering in Photoshop CS4 ...
 
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