Background:
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Superimposition of images through multiple exposures in the camera or the enlarger or through layering slides in a slide mount dates back to the dawn of photography. It has been an important creative outlet for new ways of seeing our world.
Of course, the digital “lightroom” adds new dimensions and possibilities. And digital cameras don’t “do” multiple exposures.
In this project, you can superimpose your images using traditional methods based on film technologies or using the digital “lightroom”.
This is different than collaging where you combine fragments of images. And it is different than building synthetic real-looking images out of fragments of other images. The purpose is to illustrate the beautiful lighting and other effects that can be derived from superimposition, just as happens with multiple exposures in a film camera.
You can combine and blend the images in many different ways fading different parts of the individual images, using all the tools at your disposal. You can photograph one or more of the single images with different filters or through glass or through mesh stockings!
Be creative. Your final result should be pictorially exciting and convey a sense of pictorial integrity: there should be a reason for combining the particular images selected, rather than just superimposing three or more images at random! Good superimpositions often have a dreamlike feeling to them.
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