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17-AUG-2012 Najinsky

Double Take

Prasat, Surin, Thailand

There's a lot of wind blowing at the moment causing some motion blur that I've been working to eliminate. So along comes a motion challenge and I have to think about how I can increase the motion effect. I decided to use the double exposure feature of the Olympus to capture two successive shots with the wind having blown the subject between shots. Where they overlap, it gives a full exposure, where they don't, more of a shadow.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 ,Panasonic Lumix G 25mm F/1.4
1/125s f/7.1 at 25.0mm iso200 full exif

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kchristian 23-Aug-2012 01:28
I agree with all the previous comments ... very nice! - ken
Michael Kilpatrick21-Aug-2012 05:07
Thanks for the explanation Najinsky. I still haven't tried it, but will before long. Regards, Michael
Canon Image Challenge19-Aug-2012 15:03
Thanks for the comments all, much appreciated. I think the fern like leaves work especially well with this technique because they reatin a lot of their original shape. I tried other subjects that didn't work so well.

Michael, just a word of caution if you decide to try out the double exposure.

I first used the double exposure on the E-P1. It works at the raw level, and based on your settings it adjusts the gain to make either a composite exposure (2 half exposures combined) or an averaged one. Either way, the resulting raw was just a raw, no different from any other, and all s/w that read E-P1 raws read them correctly.

There is clearly something different going on with the E-M5 double exposure raws. It's like the raw contains both full exposures (or perhaps 1 full and 1 gain adjusted). Either way it displays overexposed, and with the green channel doubly so. It couldn't easily be fixed (although I only spent limited time trying) because the green channel is too far boosted to compensate using the regular adjustment controls.

My solution was to copy the raw back to the SD card and process the raw in camera to produce a well exposed JPEG, and then load the JPEG to the computer for onward processing.

Regards,
-Najinsky


Canon Image Challenge18-Aug-2012 20:32
I like the effect you achieved here - and all in camera.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge18-Aug-2012 01:49
This is of course even better, smarter certainly, but better artistically also...this is terrific. Traveller
Canon Image Challenge17-Aug-2012 22:23
very unique patterns!! very nice indeed!! shu
Michael Kilpatrick17-Aug-2012 13:28
Nifty image. I haven't tried the double exposure feature yet. I hadn't thought of this as a method of showing movement either, but it works very well. Regards, Michael
Charlie Beck17-Aug-2012 13:16
Very clever solution to a tricky problem. I love the results.