Weekly Challenge Sep 23 - Sep 30: "Wet Multiplicity"

"Wet Multiplicity" - @wornish + @cwgrizz 's Choices

This is gonna be good. Everybody knows what "Wet" is. "Multiplicity" is putting a living being, human, animal, etc. in the same scene multiple times. This could be done with multiple shots merged together or could be done with multiple flashes during a time exposure. Check out this old challenge thread. Get out of your boxes and shoot some "Wet Multiplicity"
Let's see how creative you can be! Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes!

DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL WEDNESDAY Sep 23
This early announcement of the topic is to give a little think time, before the challenge begins. Photos must be taken and submitted between 00:00 UTC of the start date and 00:00 UTC of the end date.

This is two photos, one with the geese in the water and a second a minute later after they moved onto the bank. And merged using Photoshop Elements Panorama tool. If I were going for the gold, I would have worked on it a bit more. So you could take successive shots as you panned a moving subject and then merge them into one.

The Rules

1. Photos must be captured with a Nikon and appear in the thread with EXIF info in order to be considered for the challenge. If the forum EXIF viewer does not show for any reason, listing the camera and capture date/time below the photo is acceptable. Listing exposure info, lens & focal length is encouraged so others can learn.

2. Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread.

3. Only one photo entry per member for each week, unless otherwise noted.

4. All regularly active members of Nikonites are allowed to participate, including moderators and administrators.

Voting

During the submission & like periods, please click the Thanks/Like button to vote for your favorite images. You can vote for as many as you want! At the end of the week, you will have the opportunity to vote again for the top 3 photos for this challenge!

There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Photo Challenges, unless specifically noted by the site administrator.

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited or 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.

This one is going to make me have to think.

What a overwhelming response we are having this week! ::what::

Seriously, I'm in a tight spot. I was thinking about taking a few pictures of swans in the local pond and them doing some clever copy and paste. But then I realised that water birds cast both shadow and reflection, and water surface is rippling, changing and looks different at every angle, so this would be a very hard, if not impossible, job.

Need to think of something else.

Felisek said:

What a overwhelming response we are having this week! ::what::

Seriously, I'm in a tight spot. I was thinking about taking a few pictures of swans in the local pond and them doing some clever copy and paste. But then I realised that water birds cast both shadow and reflection, and water surface is rippling, changing and looks different at every angle, so this would be a very hard, if not impossible, job.

Need to think of something else.

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You could use content aware move in PS to sort the shadows and ripples problem.
Hope to see at least one entry

Eyelight said:

This one is live.

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And yet There's No Image Forthcoming!!

On a quiet morning, mum's the word.

This was not at all an easy challenge to come up with anything to fit the theme. I'm not completely happy with my entry, but it seems that this time around, just having anything to enter that can be argued to fit the theme puts me ahead of everyone else so far.

So, here's a multiplicity of me, enjoying a wet beverage, wheting a knife blade, and then doing some soldering, which depends on wetting the wires with molten metal. (And yes, in technical discussions, the term “wetting” is actually used to describe the process of proper soldering—in order to get a decent joint, the molten solder must “wet” the metal in exactly the same way that water would wet a non-water-repellent surface. If the surfaces to be soldered are not hot enough, or not clean enough, the solder will not stick properly, but will tend to bead up in much the same way water would on a surface that is oily or otherwise water-repellent; and you get a weak joint that will almost certainly fail.)

I still have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

Blacktop said:

I still have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

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In theory it's pretty simple, but in actuality it could be difficult. Ha!

Put yourself, your wife, girlfriend, or any person in a scene multiple times. It could also be another living being like a dog, cat, rat... Then add to this mix of the multiple instances of the same living beings the theme of "Wet" however you interpret wet. In the thread referenced in the initial listing of this challenge there are some really good examples of "multiplicity" without the "Wet" part. Bob sort of took my idea, but hey there are still a couple of days left to play. LOL

Sample image is up. I had a couple ideas to put one together. Then @Felisek made the comment and I remembered I had taken multiple shots of these 5 geese and that seemed to work.

Another method would be using flash. Google Multiple Flash Exposure and look thru the images for ideas of how you can use off camera flash and time exposure. You just need a separate flash unit that can be fired manual. Do it in a darkened room or outside at night. Set the camera for a long exposure and move around in the frame, or let the dog or cat wander around as you flash them.

Bob Blaylock said:

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This is spot on with the concept of "Multiplicity" part (multiples of the same subject), with Bob's usual out of the box thinking on the "Wet" part.

This is my attempt. Background picture plus 12 layers. All pictures taken today, with the same camera and lens. A real pain to blend all the boats in. The hardest part: fishing rods. :nightmare:

Two hours of Photoshop work. Don't ask me to do this again!

Eyelight said:

Sample image is up. I had a couple ideas to put one together. Then @Felisek made the comment and I remembered I had taken multiple shots of these 5 geese and that seemed to work.

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Looking at the sample image, It is not at all apparent that this is anything other than nine different geese. We can only take your word that there were only five geese, with some photographic trick to make it look like there were more.

It seems to me that an important element of “multiplicity” picture would be a subject that is distinctive enough, and shown with enough detail, that one can clearly see that it is the same one subject multiplied, rather than a picture of multiple similar subjects.

If it were an entry, it might matter, but even then, it would be up to the likes.

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Well Bob sort of took my first idea for this weeks challenge and then as I developed my next option Felisek almost took it. I really couldn't do Felisek's idea as I don't have any lakes close by. I think this will work. It was three shots processed using GIMP layers.

Illegal Fishing

this is my effort im short on time at the min so not had a chance to get out much..

I was testing this today, but I don't think I had the D7100 setup correctly, Gave up in the end, and took 3 shots using the timer.

Managed to merge them together with a mix of microsoft paint and photoshop, but just out of focus, so will redo it tomorrow.

thequeenscheese said:

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I'm not entirely certain what I'm looking at here, but I like the shot... A lot.

It has a... uh... well... Sort of weird//dark/creepy edginess that's totally working for me.

Well done.
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Everyone gets a like from me, just for even trying.

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