I do have a craving to use the double exposure in-camera and I do love being creative in it. That’s no secret here on my blog and this post will share some photos I took lately along with a little bit of how they were formed.
They were all shot in-camera on the Canon R6 using the 24mm lens that I am addicted to these days. All were taken into LR Raw to straighten out and add a bit of clarity to the shadows and such. A bit of vibrance was added via brush to bring out some of the details and the following show the outcome.
This is an exposure of a painting of the Golden Gate Bridge before it was built. You can see the steam ships in the background. The lady and lambs are of a painting on a piece of furniture from the early 1800s. I thought they would work well phased together as a ‘before’ or let’s say a long before the vision of the Golden Gate Bridge existed.
This is of my GGG Grandmother Norma Allen Short. She is double exposed over a painting that I have of the Bay from Hyde Street In San Francisco. That is Alcatraz in the background. She lived in San Francisco as most of my family did, married and had children and a life there. I thought this retro watercolor from the 60s was fitting with the cable car on her chest for legacy of that love of the Bay which I do have still.
I’m a collector of many things. One is old sayings and drawings from the past. The foreground is a saying on a piece of wood. I am not sure of the date but it is cute and hangs on the wall. The background is a chalk drawing of trees and a forest that opens up to the light. They went together to join each other just for the love of the look.
And then, this one. Guess who is in the foreground taking the photo and the background is one I shot in Yosemite on one of my trips there. Yosemite has a romance and sadness for our family and seems to call me back as often as I can get there.
I hope you enjoyed my indulgence of double exposure. I thank Edmund Teske for that impression he left on me. I think of him often when I do creatives like this. It is so easy to do and a lot of fun. I encourage those that have the little glitch of photo madness to get to know your camera and take it to the limits. Have fun, it is not a competition it is an inspiring nerve from your creative mind to produce what you love to do. It’s as easy as that.
Til next time…
Kathleen Jennette.
12 responses to “~Seeing Double~”
These are beautiful! So creative!
Thank you. I’m glad you liked them😊
Thank you Deborah
I love these, especially the first one, and I appreciate you including the details about the two superimposed images and how you created the shots.
Thank you 😊
This technique works so well with the shots you have chosen. I love the first one especially. Other worldly.
Thank you, I am glad you like them.
the double exposure with your GGG really spoke to me. i kind of liken our lives as layers of exposures stacked continuously over the people that have come before us. in some ways, our lives are our lives and in other ways, the presence of those past exposures create the lines and shadows that give our present its identity. my Dad often tells me of my striking resemblance to a distant blood relative he had that was very kind to him when he was a child and how he doesn’t know whether to attribute it to sheer luck or sleeping-and-suddenly-awakened-DNA-properties that my appearance made its way all the way from that part of the family tree to ours.
i enjoyed this gallery. and also, it’s a real blessing to have an accounting of your family from that long ago. the earliest I can account for both sides of my family are somewhere in the early 1800s.
Archer
Wow, thank you. That is how I felt when doing the photos. I have spent a good decade doing my family ancestry. One side goes back so far, the Morman Temple registered it back to “God”. I have a few photos here of family and I just recently developed negatives from 1906ish. Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed my little hobby.
So interesting to learn a bit of how you did these. I really like them. 🙂
Nice examples. Double exposure sounds interesting.
Thank you, it is a nice creative outlet from the norm on the camera.