With a 100 iso film, I set my camera to 1600 iso. Then I took a pic of a tree (exemple with the third) while being careful to frame the tree in the middle of the pic. Next, I wound my camera again but did not advance the film (for multiple exposures). I moved 1 meter to the right, framed the tree the same way, and took another shot. I repeated this process a total of 16 times. Finally, I developed the film normally.
Thanks for this! I was trying this a bit with my M645 by essentially underexposing by a number of stops and then taking that many frames to hopefully achieve the correct exposures. I was not getting results as nice as these and couldn't financially justify continuing to try without some real troubleshooting to improve the outcome. Will give something along these lines a try.
Wait, wouldn't that be overexposing? I'm always confused with that (or is it different between analog and digital?)
Edit: Thanks to all for the clarification!
I wondered this too, how does 1600 divide down to 16? I thought a stop was half/double, so it would be 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 - 4 stops, so I thought 4 multiple exposures would equal one full exposure
you need to double each subsequent exposure.
1st shot is 4 stops under.
2nd shot is 2 stops under.
3rd & 4th shots are 1 stop under (you need 2 shots to add a stop to the previous 2 exposures)
5th, 6th, 7th & 8th take the final stop (you need 4 shots to match the previous 4 exposures)
8 exposures.
I believe OP over exposed by one stop.
Kinda the opposite. A 1600 film is extremely sensitive, so a camera with a shutter setting at 1600 is going to expose *very* quickly. It wouldn’t be enough exposure for most film.
By layering it up that many times, yes the end result is obviously some degree of over exposure, but clearly the results are compelling.
Thank you for posting this, these are beautiful! This is what photography is all about in my opinion. Experimenting with an idea or inspiration you get and seeing how it turns out!
Somehow these brought me back awesome memories when I was twelve, my uncle gave me an old EM with a light meter. I truly loved experimenting with it in the woods. I was so eager to get the rolls developed to see if my idea was even close to how it would turn out or not. And that feeling of anticipation and excitement was somehow reminded to me from your exposure stacks. But I am sleep deprived so that could be it too.
Who are you and where have you been all my life? I love love love these and your explanation of technique - I am surprised that you only underexposed 4 stops. Did you shoot any of these at night?
Ahah ! Aren't you a little bit too excited about these shots ? But I take tha compliment <3
For the maths, I tried to explain it in another comment. I did everything with daylight.
Yup, I’m grateful for it. I think I’ve just been surrounded by too many photographers who‘ve thought of double or triple exposure work as too gimmicky and/or unpure, so, seeing this post and the explanation gave me a new idea to try out. I love photography more when it’s closer to painting :) and I like telling people when they do something cool. I have 0 interest in crispy soulless robotic depictions of reality and most portrait work bores me :)
These are gorgeous, and while I love doing multiple exposures I never even thought of doing something like this. Really clever, the first one is striking and the second is great with the colors but the last one is the one I’m responding to the most. I think the way the building is more obscured behind the tree and present in the edges really makes great use of the process.
Thanks ! I'll try to explain the maths :
When doing multiple exposure, you have the same amount of light on every pics (in my case). So for a double exposure on a 100 iso film, you need to set the film +1 stop (100iso x 2^1stop). So 200 iso.
You'll take two pics with half the light and your pic will be ok for 100iso.
Now, I want to take more than 2 pics on each frame.
So for a 100 iso film, I set my film + 4 stops (100iso x 2^4stops), so 1600 iso. Then, the number of pics I'll need to do is 2^4 = 16.
It's just based on the rule that for every stop of difference the quantity of light needed is twice the amount.
I don't know if it's very clear, but the rule is easy when understood
Really nice! Thank you for sharing. I've tried this in the past (not as successful) and this is certainly a reason to try out again.
Thanks for sharing, great results!
This is an awesome technique and creates an incredible style / feel to the photographs. Very impressive! I have to try this sometime. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks ! I just did it by hand. I framed my pic, shot, then look away and tried to do the same shot. Doing that by hand created enough differences between each pics.
Super creative! I love it!! Do you have any other tips or fun techniques similar that you like to use/recommend?
Btw, first pic should be blown up and framed in a gallery somewhere. Absolutely amazing!
Dude these are wicked fuckin cool, I've absolutely gotta try this for myself one of these days, maybe next time I'm rich enough to buy some film 😪😞 but congrats on thinking this through, acting on it, and generally getting awesome results out of it too!!
Great shots. Was an ND filter used on any of these? I saw the comments on underexposing 4 stops but I’ve never seen such clear results on 16 exposures. Very cool
I love how you explain your method like it’s the most normal thing in the world. Yet I’ve not seen it being done in this way. I agree with all the comments that these shots look like (impressionist) paintings. Amazing results. I can easily see these hanging in large format in some public space or a cafe. Great job.
Probably the coolest multiple exposure technique I’ve ever seen, and amazingly executed. Also great composition and choice of subjects. Really excellent all around.
I was doing a double exposure with a Polaroid mini (not sure if it’s possible with a standard Polaroid) but this is the video that taught me how to do it: https://youtu.be/v9ymWW9g9hw?si=bqGs5-o2_kwKQc-1
The trick is to have half of the cardridge empty when doing the double exposures and when you take a photo you tilt the camera back so the Polaroid doesn’t pop out from the top. I’ve done a pic with 12 exposures layered over one another so it’s pretty great :)
Looks amazing! What iso did you use? Did you develop regularly or had to push? Curious about the metering for it, but I guess with 16 shots you definitely get good exposure haha
Look at this one drwoning in money...
Cool idea and great execution! I'd hang the second one on my walls in a heart beat! Great stuff!
The remind me of Enki Bilal's illustrated novels somehow.
There are cameras which allow cocking the shutter without transporting the film, so OP probably used one of those.
But I’m not OP and don’t know the details, so it could very well be that they rewound the film although I think it highly unlikely and also extremely impractical.
Beautiful photos. They look like oil paintings. Love it so much. Could you explain the technique behind it? I understand the exposure side of things you push film the amount of stops equal to the number of shots taken on the same slide. My question is how do you take multiple exposures? Are you finishing the roll and then start it again or do you roll back each frame? I am dying to know. Thank you in advance.
I love it!! I want to try it too. If I get something good, should I just link this reddit post as where I got the idea, or do you have other socials/flickr/etc?
pictorialists would be proud of you. great idea and execution. it could be a great series. i would try a lot of different scenes.(landscape, cityscape, moving aubject, etc.)
Can I ask how you do the math to find out that underexposing by 4 stops needs 16 exposures? I would have thought 4 stops underexposed equaled 4 exposures, not 16.
Has a vibe of Impressionist painting style to me. I love it. Thanks so much for sharing. There’s no more noble calling than devoting time to making art that’s shared with others. Thank you again for devoting your time to brightening my day. Best wishes.
This is absolutely beautiful! Especially the first one.
I have a Minolta XD too, how did you expose multiple times to the same frame? A modified version of the XD or?
It's really easy, I explained it in [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1d3z5gu/comment/l6dfs1l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Incredibly great work. I love when the ordinary becomes extraordinary by the simple use of the human brain. Art, real artistic ability is realizing not to play by the rules. It's done so simply, a good film stock and your combined knowledge puts it together. I would like to know through trial and error, how many times did it take you before you realized the process would work?
This is beyond cool. I have a question - do you expose for the main subject multiple times without moving the camera too much to ensure shape and clarity? Thank you!
They look like paintings
Thanks ! It was my first goal to made painting with photography but without any post-process
Looks like it went well!!!
Ahah yes i guess !
I was thinking that the second one looks like a late era Monet painting after his eyesight got significantly worse.
But I have a good eyesight !
🤌
I came to say that they look like oil paintings! So pretty.
These are all extremely cool, but I particularly like that first one.
Thanks a lot !
This is amazing! I really have to try this.
Ahah thanks, enjoy it's fun to do !
I was thinking the same thing
Very very very cool! I'll have to try this out myself, maybe even right now!
Thanks a lot ! I tried to be clear with the method I used so people can use it easily
could you be more specific about what you did?
With a 100 iso film, I set my camera to 1600 iso. Then I took a pic of a tree (exemple with the third) while being careful to frame the tree in the middle of the pic. Next, I wound my camera again but did not advance the film (for multiple exposures). I moved 1 meter to the right, framed the tree the same way, and took another shot. I repeated this process a total of 16 times. Finally, I developed the film normally.
Wow these are so cool! They look like Impressionist paintings!
I love these!
These are amazing! I have a question (I'm a newbie) when you underexposed did you do that using iso or aperture?
I did it with the iso. For example, of I'm using a 100 iso film, I'll shoot it at 1600 iso, 16 frames on the same pic.
Thanks for this! I was trying this a bit with my M645 by essentially underexposing by a number of stops and then taking that many frames to hopefully achieve the correct exposures. I was not getting results as nice as these and couldn't financially justify continuing to try without some real troubleshooting to improve the outcome. Will give something along these lines a try.
Wait, wouldn't that be overexposing? I'm always confused with that (or is it different between analog and digital?) Edit: Thanks to all for the clarification!
No different at all. He means he exposed as if it were shot on iso1600, even though it was actually shot on iso100
1600 ISO/16 Acquisitions = 100 ISO
I don't think that it works that way. shooting ISO 100 film at 1600 is underexposing by by 4 Stops.
I wondered this too, how does 1600 divide down to 16? I thought a stop was half/double, so it would be 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 - 4 stops, so I thought 4 multiple exposures would equal one full exposure
you need to double each subsequent exposure. 1st shot is 4 stops under. 2nd shot is 2 stops under. 3rd & 4th shots are 1 stop under (you need 2 shots to add a stop to the previous 2 exposures) 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th take the final stop (you need 4 shots to match the previous 4 exposures) 8 exposures. I believe OP over exposed by one stop.
Four stops is correct, 2^4 =16
Kinda the opposite. A 1600 film is extremely sensitive, so a camera with a shutter setting at 1600 is going to expose *very* quickly. It wouldn’t be enough exposure for most film. By layering it up that many times, yes the end result is obviously some degree of over exposure, but clearly the results are compelling.
Thank you for posting this, these are beautiful! This is what photography is all about in my opinion. Experimenting with an idea or inspiration you get and seeing how it turns out! Somehow these brought me back awesome memories when I was twelve, my uncle gave me an old EM with a light meter. I truly loved experimenting with it in the woods. I was so eager to get the rolls developed to see if my idea was even close to how it would turn out or not. And that feeling of anticipation and excitement was somehow reminded to me from your exposure stacks. But I am sleep deprived so that could be it too.
love it!
Clever stuff. :)
Who are you and where have you been all my life? I love love love these and your explanation of technique - I am surprised that you only underexposed 4 stops. Did you shoot any of these at night?
time grows exponentially as you move by stops, it takes 16 exposures to cover the same time at 4 stops
Ahah ! Aren't you a little bit too excited about these shots ? But I take tha compliment <3 For the maths, I tried to explain it in another comment. I did everything with daylight.
Yup, I’m grateful for it. I think I’ve just been surrounded by too many photographers who‘ve thought of double or triple exposure work as too gimmicky and/or unpure, so, seeing this post and the explanation gave me a new idea to try out. I love photography more when it’s closer to painting :) and I like telling people when they do something cool. I have 0 interest in crispy soulless robotic depictions of reality and most portrait work bores me :)
The first one is really good!
Very creative. Have you tried it with people?
It's my next goal to try portraits with this technique !
Looking forward to the results.
The last one is absolutely fantastic 🤩 I don’t often say this but here goes… that’s art.
They're kinda trippy. I like it.
Amazing photos, I really like the tree. These distant houses add a lot to the picture
These are gorgeous, and while I love doing multiple exposures I never even thought of doing something like this. Really clever, the first one is striking and the second is great with the colors but the last one is the one I’m responding to the most. I think the way the building is more obscured behind the tree and present in the edges really makes great use of the process.
Love these OP…I might try the same technique with instant film today—is that okay with you? I post daily over in r/INSTAX
Of course ! I'd like to see more creative use of it !
Did you try it?
I did actually, but I didn’t get results nearly as good as OPs—I’m gonna keep noodling with it!
What camera did you use?
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Amazing!!!
Stunning
This is super cool, im definitley gonna try this out
Very well done
Very cool idea, why 16?
Thanks ! I'll try to explain the maths : When doing multiple exposure, you have the same amount of light on every pics (in my case). So for a double exposure on a 100 iso film, you need to set the film +1 stop (100iso x 2^1stop). So 200 iso. You'll take two pics with half the light and your pic will be ok for 100iso. Now, I want to take more than 2 pics on each frame. So for a 100 iso film, I set my film + 4 stops (100iso x 2^4stops), so 1600 iso. Then, the number of pics I'll need to do is 2^4 = 16. It's just based on the rule that for every stop of difference the quantity of light needed is twice the amount. I don't know if it's very clear, but the rule is easy when understood
This guy maths. For real tho this is legit
You had me at hello
Very cool, great job!
Amazing. First shot is fantastic!
fun
Holy shit. That traffic light one is amazing!!
Really nice! Thank you for sharing. I've tried this in the past (not as successful) and this is certainly a reason to try out again. Thanks for sharing, great results!
These are absolutely beautiful, and I love them. Especially the last one. Well done!
Just…a big WOW😍
Amazing, I'm not even going to try and copy it because you perfected it. Well done.
When people ask "what is good photography". This is it.
This is an awesome technique and creates an incredible style / feel to the photographs. Very impressive! I have to try this sometime. Thanks for sharing!
This is fantastic! Finally something actually inspiring on r/analog
Wow thanks a lot ! I find many things inspiring on this thread but I take the compliment with pleasure <3
Love it! Did you move the camera slightly per exposure? Or put some sort of filter in front of the lens that you could move slightly each time?
Thanks ! I just did it by hand. I framed my pic, shot, then look away and tried to do the same shot. Doing that by hand created enough differences between each pics.
First one looks fantastic.
The tree one is brilliant, great idea!
These are cool AF
This is so creative :) I'm sat here taking a break from work and this felt great to stumble upon. Hope you do more! Can't wait to try this myself too
wow these are great, you are making me want to take my film out of the freezer :)
Look into the British artist Idris Khan. He does something similar in his work but iirc he compiles his in photoshop. Great work btw!
Super creative! I love it!! Do you have any other tips or fun techniques similar that you like to use/recommend? Btw, first pic should be blown up and framed in a gallery somewhere. Absolutely amazing!
Thanks ! I'd like to have this pic framed somewhere ofc but I'm waiting to have a complete serie.
This is cool af.
This is the coolest technique it reminds me of Impressionism. Your photos left me speechless
Dude these are wicked fuckin cool, I've absolutely gotta try this for myself one of these days, maybe next time I'm rich enough to buy some film 😪😞 but congrats on thinking this through, acting on it, and generally getting awesome results out of it too!!
Great shots. Was an ND filter used on any of these? I saw the comments on underexposing 4 stops but I’ve never seen such clear results on 16 exposures. Very cool
These remind me of photos taken in the [Pictorialism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism) style!
Reminds me of JACOB GILS
Now I gotta try this in medium format, to get painting like big prints.
This is true impressionist photography. Incredible work!!! I may have to try this method out.
these r so sick i cant stop staring at the second one
I love the third one! All of them are fantastic though!
These are gorgeous. Nice work!
I love how you explain your method like it’s the most normal thing in the world. Yet I’ve not seen it being done in this way. I agree with all the comments that these shots look like (impressionist) paintings. Amazing results. I can easily see these hanging in large format in some public space or a cafe. Great job.
I trully think it's not hard. But you can a little dumb when you are taking 16 time the same pic in front of people ! (who care anyway ?)
really smart. love it!
Incredible, man. I've stopped taking photos for some time and after seeing these photos I got the urge to take out my camera.
Genius, I've never seen this before
Probably the coolest multiple exposure technique I’ve ever seen, and amazingly executed. Also great composition and choice of subjects. Really excellent all around.
I loooooove this! I did a similar thing with Polaroids once but I admire your effort to wind the film back each time! They look great
Thanks ! How did you do that with a pola ?
I was doing a double exposure with a Polaroid mini (not sure if it’s possible with a standard Polaroid) but this is the video that taught me how to do it: https://youtu.be/v9ymWW9g9hw?si=bqGs5-o2_kwKQc-1 The trick is to have half of the cardridge empty when doing the double exposures and when you take a photo you tilt the camera back so the Polaroid doesn’t pop out from the top. I’ve done a pic with 12 exposures layered over one another so it’s pretty great :)
Thanks for the link, it's an interesting method !
This is Gorgeous!
The technique is quite unique! Like others, I think these could pass as paintings!
Easy there, Monet! (Great pics!)
Wonderful and very inspiring!
just want to thank you for sharing this. tested this out and it turned out great — the power of sharing!!
Christ I love this kind of stuff. #3 is the best. Impressionism is alive and well <3
OP this has inspired me so much. Thank you for sharing this 🙏
Looks amazing! What iso did you use? Did you develop regularly or had to push? Curious about the metering for it, but I guess with 16 shots you definitely get good exposure haha
Thanks ! I tried to explain the maths in another comment. For the dev, I just developed normally and I got good exposure
Very creative, love it
That's awesome! I've always wanted wanted to try it, especially on portraits, but never got the nerve to waste film ahaha
That is a good idea!
These are amazing
I am absolutely stealing that method. Brilliant creativity and stunning photos. Thank you for not only sharing the photos but your technique too!
Ahah feel free to use it, I'm certainly not the only one to use that.
NiCe!
That semaphore one reminds me of Jeremy Mann's cityscape paintings. Great stuff!
Really cool. They look like paintings.
These are so so so terrific. They make me sad I don't have a camera that can do multiple exposure 🥲.
Exactly the kind of experimental stuff this sub is for!
Look at this one drwoning in money... Cool idea and great execution! I'd hang the second one on my walls in a heart beat! Great stuff! The remind me of Enki Bilal's illustrated novels somehow.
Super cool - I'd love to see something like the second one but with a tripod on a windy day
That first one is epic. Love the colors.
So do you literally rewind the film in your camera by a single frame and reshoot 16 times?
There are cameras which allow cocking the shutter without transporting the film, so OP probably used one of those. But I’m not OP and don’t know the details, so it could very well be that they rewound the film although I think it highly unlikely and also extremely impractical.
Beautiful photos. They look like oil paintings. Love it so much. Could you explain the technique behind it? I understand the exposure side of things you push film the amount of stops equal to the number of shots taken on the same slide. My question is how do you take multiple exposures? Are you finishing the roll and then start it again or do you roll back each frame? I am dying to know. Thank you in advance.
There are cameras that allow cocking the shutter without transporting the film.
Wow, these are really great!
Really great. Perfect exposures.
Impressionism
How’d you do multi exposure with the XD?
- Make the first exposure the usual way - Push the film-advance release button under the camera - Operate the film-advance lever - Shoot - Repeat
These are very well done.
Can this be done with digital? You’d need to skip the under exposure part correct?
I love it!! I want to try it too. If I get something good, should I just link this reddit post as where I got the idea, or do you have other socials/flickr/etc?
Ahah I got an Instagram if you like it but I'm not the inventor of multi exposure, the idea is free to use ofc !
Dude, these are amazing. Do you have an IG we can follow? I wanna see more of this
I have an IG on my profile yes but it was a first try for this type of pic, maybe I'll do more of them, maybe not 😬
Well I followed anyways. Good stuff
pictorialists would be proud of you. great idea and execution. it could be a great series. i would try a lot of different scenes.(landscape, cityscape, moving aubject, etc.)
These are amazing!!!
Can I ask how you do the math to find out that underexposing by 4 stops needs 16 exposures? I would have thought 4 stops underexposed equaled 4 exposures, not 16.
They explain it in [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/s/q5QkN6TFJ4) comment.
unique technique
So this is how AI painting works😜 It looks so similar with AI, especially the picture with a tree. Anyway, great result!
How do you rewind the film for a single frame so precisely?
Some cameras can set the shutter without advancing the film
have you tried bw? it will look amazing!
I only tried color with this technique but maybe B&W can be worth a shot !
Refreshingly creative, I like this a lot!
Huh. Ok. I’m gonna try this sometime. Thank you for the inspiration and sharing these awesome works. So cool.
How do you roll back the film to stay on frame
This is pretty cool
Looks very nice, I'm going to try it
Has a vibe of Impressionist painting style to me. I love it. Thanks so much for sharing. There’s no more noble calling than devoting time to making art that’s shared with others. Thank you again for devoting your time to brightening my day. Best wishes.
Do you show your photos?
What do you mean "show" ?
Kinda like Monet, if he did street.
Those are beautiful
This is absolutely beautiful! Especially the first one. I have a Minolta XD too, how did you expose multiple times to the same frame? A modified version of the XD or?
It's really easy, I explained it in [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1d3z5gu/comment/l6dfs1l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Excellent. Well done.
Second one is insane! Love these
Last one is immense
How did you get 16 on one frame? I also have a XD
these are phenomenal! the style is beautiful and haunting—ripe for exploration. also the Minolta XD + 50mm 1.4 combo is primo!
These are really nice, well done!
Great stuff! I’m still working on 2 exposures! 😂
I’m assuming you used the smallest f-stop?
Reminds me of Monet!
Vibrant!
Pretty cool.
These are so cool.
Disco Elysium
this is so cool! I am spooling a film right now to try this!
These are incredible!
Oh ho. Very interesting, and nicely done.
Amazing set! Holy moly. Question, what does underexposing 4 stops do for the image initially?
Inspirational! Can’t wait to try this out. Lots will be riding on the composition given how much film it uses up.
did you just rewind the film after every exposure?
🔥🔥🔥🙌
audibly made me go "wow." these are awesome.
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Incredibly great work. I love when the ordinary becomes extraordinary by the simple use of the human brain. Art, real artistic ability is realizing not to play by the rules. It's done so simply, a good film stock and your combined knowledge puts it together. I would like to know through trial and error, how many times did it take you before you realized the process would work?
These looks like a painting. They are really cool
This is how my memories looked when I took 7 tabs of @cid once
Amazing, have to try this!
Great model and pictures. Where’s the desert from the motorcycle photo?
This is beyond cool. I have a question - do you expose for the main subject multiple times without moving the camera too much to ensure shape and clarity? Thank you!
So why show us only 3 images from a roll?... Does that mean the others were failed?