The brief for today was have a look at some fun pictures – defined as anything members of the class thought entertaining, e.g. images creatively edited or amusing shots, the more Christmas themed, the better. The only limitations was that they should be our own work, not trawled off the internet. The class submitted 18 images: four were of humorous subjects; eight had a Christmas theme; and eleven were more or less heavily post processed (up to using AI in a couple of cases) to create artificial scenes.
I’m interested in multiple exposures and have experimented with it in the past using film, which I’ve found to be quite hit and miss. For this week I tried the technique using printing. I made the image below by underexposing an existing picture (shown) in Lightroom and over printing it at various sizes. The final print was scanned and then tweaked in Lightroom. The key thing I’ve learned in playing with double exposure is that on film the highlights dominate and with printing it’s the shadows that take over.
This is not a very Christmassy image – Pandora’s Box is the ultimate unwanted present.