MULTIPLE IMAGES

Sandra chatting - As I said on the Low Light project, I'm not terribly interested in the technical aspect of cameras and photography.

There will be no technobabble, just some bits and pieces that I discovered whilst trying to take reasonable photos.

For October SCC set an assignment called 'Multiple Images'. One photograph with lots of pictures in it, could be a picture of one thing lots of times, or a picture where things have been added to another picture say a rainbow on a scene, or a pattern made up of one thing.

I have a wooden Christmas tree ornament (it's the one that got left out when they were packed away this year!) with some holes in it and I thought it would be nice to try and get that going away into the distance. So, that really didn't work and I ended up just making patterns out of it. The first one I did using my Nikon D200 and the second using Photoshop.

I had learned that there are two ways of making multiple images, one is using the camera and the other any available software for processing images. What I hadn't realised at this stage was that cameras are not all alike! I was disappointed in the results I was getting with my beloved Nikon, so Mike lent me his Fuji.

I found the Fuji much easier to use as the programme allowed the first image taken to be shown on the viewfinder/screen whilst setting up and positioning the second (even using the zoom!) The only disadvantage was that the Fuji would only take a multiple of two, whereas the Nikon will take up to 5.

What really surprised me was the difference between using the two cameras and how much easier it was when the first image could be seen while taking the second.