Portrait 334

Day 334 of 365

"Portrait 334"

 

Today's concept was stol.....borrowed from a fellow photographer on Instagram. I saw an intriguing image, and have tried to reverse engineer it here. I knew it was a double exposure, but was not sure how the image was confined to the area of the body. I then decided it was probably achieved by blowing out the background. After experimenting on myself (I do this all the time...too often, actually), I brought in my more attractive model. I gave her some direction, and she did the rest. We discovered that if she wandered too far from her first pose for the second, all we were left with was a blank area without a head. I suppose the outtakes would make more sense than my babbling about it. Anyway, our key light was a strip bank at camera-left, feathered a bit ahead of the young lady. The key to the image is the second light. It is the one what blows out the white background. It is essential because it fills in (and blows out) the areas not recorded on the first exposure. Does that make sense? Fortunately for me, both exposures are viewable on the LCD screen as these multiple exposure images are recorded. This technique requires a lot of trial and error, as I did not intend to blend the exposures in post, but preferred to go with the image created in-camera. Thanks for exposing yourself to this!!

 

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