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05/26/2006 07:03:41 AM · #1 |
NOT!
Some people commented about my Self Portrait submissionâ€Â¦
â€Â¦and wondered how (and even why) it was done. BTW, it wasn’t a mirror or reflection like some guessed. Had I used a tree like I did in the outtakes I think less would thought that.
So here are some outtakes from the first attempt, original shoot and some I took a couple days ago when I had more time.
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When I was younger, my brother and I would play with my dad’s film camera. One day I saw an image in a magazine where it had what appeared to be a set of twins leaning on each side of a sports car. In the details is stated that it was not twins at all but just one person. They went on to tell how they covered half the lens with a dark material and took the first image, then they held the film advance device (I know very technical term there) and wound the camera to re-set the shutter and trigger. This caused the film to stay in the same place and create a double exposure. They moved the girl to the other side of the car, rotated the dark material to cover the other side of the image and took the next picture. I was amazed! My brother and I tried it many times with very much less than perfect (or even usable) results, but I have always wanted to try it again.
Well there is a setting similar to this on my Olympus C5050 (basically the camera takes the left half of a picture, then takes the right half and merges them together, Thank God for digital technology.) And although I’ve played with it a little I never thought I’d be able to use it on DPChallenge because of the rule about submissions having to be from a single image. Well I saw that images processed in the camera are considered legal, so I checked with SC a while back and when they said yes it was legal I just waited for the opportunity to use it.
Why I decided on this challenge for trying this technique??? Well why not? I remember when I was little I saw some TV show and a large person snuck behind a small thin tree and completely disappeared, usually peaking just his head out to look around. I’ve seen it many times on cartoons but was more fascinated by the way they did it with real live people. I seem to remember it had something to do with 2 cameras but still really don’t know. So I figured this was a perfect opportunity to try both things.
My original setup was with a coat rack (or hall tree if you’d rather) but I felt my plain white background didn’t offer enough to show the background wasn’t just something I was hiding behind. I moved in front of a flag but I just couldn’t get the feel I was after.
The next day I decided I wanted to try a small tree to add some background and get a better subject to hide behind. But my fear of looking like an idiot kept me from using some thin trees I did find. So I just grabbed a mop handle from work and stuck it in the ground behind our building, where no one could really see me work and act like a fool. I tried many different images and finally decided upon the one I submitted.
I got home that night and during processing I decided that I really should have left space at the top of the pole so that the background was continuous and again would look more natural and less like I was hiding behind something like a mirror. But since I leave for Kentucky on Friday evenings there was no time to re-shoot, this one would have to do.
After some processing (more than I would have like to do since you can’t shoot in RAW while using this 2 in 1 function), I submitted the image and in the morning I submitted a post processing screen shot and the original just in case verification was needed before I could get back to my computer on Monday.
I was totally surprised at the reaction and number of comments my image got (I know much less than some of you get but considering the difficulty involved with getting a nice sharp focus on that small pole and my lack of post processing skills this is tops for me) and felt bad that I didn’t submit a better image, so I went out and shot more for outtakes. Mostly it is pretty easy but making sure the really thin stuff doesn’t move with the wind was a killer problem.
Even though I wasn’t even close to a ribbon, I wanted to thank all of you for your comments and votes. This is my first image to make it above 6 and after my mistake with the “Environmental Portrait” submission; I needed a boost like this.
Thank you!
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05/26/2006 07:45:49 AM · #2 |
Facinating read. I always love hearing the rest of the story. It's a fun picture and worth the time and effort you took.
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05/26/2006 03:31:24 PM · #3 |
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05/26/2006 03:50:54 PM · #4 |
| That's pretty darn cool .. thank you for sharing!! |
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05/26/2006 03:58:59 PM · #5 |
Outstanding! I was wondering about that one :-) A patio umbrella, with some of the canopy visible, might have worked well also...
Robt.
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05/26/2006 04:31:14 PM · #6 |
| I'm so glad you popsted this. My camera does something like this, but I wasn't sure its legal so I never played with it. Thanks! |
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05/26/2006 04:41:11 PM · #7 |
This was done a couple years ago using the same method. Covering one half of the lens using the double-exposure in my old camera.
I miss having that feature. |
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05/26/2006 04:53:57 PM · #8 |
wow, I think you should have used this photo:
and yes, I did think that you had used a mirror because of the thick wooden "frame" down the center of the pic. though I was wondering how you had found a place with identical trees on the other side, lol... so then I wasn't sure how you did it or if it was a mirror, but your out takes are awesome as well as your entry |
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05/26/2006 05:31:44 PM · #9 |
| cute photo, neat trick (I thought it was a mirror, too), and I very much appreciate reading the story behind it. Thanks for posting this. |
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05/26/2006 05:33:28 PM · #10 |
could this be possible with a long shutterspeed?
edit: including covering the lens, of course
Message edited by author 2006-05-26 17:36:05.
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05/26/2006 05:38:36 PM · #11 |
| Hey, I have that camera - where do I find the left right feature???? |
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05/26/2006 09:35:49 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by emorgan49:
Hey, I have that camera - where do I find the left right feature???? |
it can only be used when shooting jpg and can't be the 3:2 ratio either, under the menu go to the Camera settings and find 2 in 1 option. As soon as you select it you will get a small section in the middle of your screen. It takes the left hand picture first and as far as I could tell you can even use different exposures for both but I didn't mess with too much custom stuff.
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