Further Technique Research

Hannah Sewell

Multiple Exposures (Photoshop)Multiple exposure images is a photo edit of an image where you get multiple images and put them together into one final image. In the past year this technique has gradually become very popular due to the fact of Photoshop and how this software can now make images like this in a much easier and quicker way. Multiple exposure was used with films back in the day, the way they did this was when they went through each picture with the film, instead of changing each film for the next image, they kept the film in the same place so that another picture goes on top of the original images and ended up getting this edit. Many sources says that using black and white is the best way because bright colours might take over to much and not contrast well with other bright colours, even though black and white made sense researching the images I found that colour made the images more exciting and beautiful, the top one especially looks nice because of the beautiful sky mixing with the girls face.

To make these actual images on Photoshop you do:• Open a new page layout, make sure that your page is rotated 90 degrees, to do that

go on image>image rotation>90. This will make your page easier to work with when sorting out the chosen images.

• Once you've done that you insert one image to make that your background then place you second image in and go on File>Place this will automatically make your image go into a box like effect.

• After this point you change the box from ‘normal’ to screen, this box is above your layers on the left.

• Position your image to where you want it to be and then press enter, this will make an overall Double exposure image.

• To make a Multiple Exposure image you do the exact same put keep adding different images onto it.

This is one I’vemade myself.

Harris Shutter

The Harris Shutter effect was invented by a man called Robert S. Harris, he worked at Kodak and he was fascinated by combining bright colours and making them into one. When Robert invented this he made three colour filters out of a strip device, this meant that it allowed him to put different colours onto an image, this worked by have layers of each primary colour and then expose them in different speed times so that it created a colour image. Now that technology has become better and camera’s have become more developed, it means that it’s now easier to create an image like this, for example software's like Photoshop and Gimp can now produce these images very quickly by just reading a tutorial. There is now an app on every normal mobile phone so that people can easily create an Harris Shutter image.

This is how you produce a Harris Shutter image:• When you go out make sure you take three images of the same area, your camera will have to

be on a tripod for it to work. When taking the three images the settings have to be the same on each so that they are identical, once it takes three images quickly then you can move on to putting them on Photoshop.

• When taking images of a train then it would have to be on a really fast mode so that it has a clear image of the train moving on each image, if it’s something much slower like water then it can be between 1-50 seconds.

• On each image you change the RGB of each image (on Photoshop this is at the top right of the software) for the first image you move the key to make it red, the second image green and the last image blue.

• Once you have done that then you can combine and merge the images together so that it becomes a Harris Shutter image.