I learnt something interesting at college yesterday: double exposure. It's basically putting two images on top of each other and blending them together to make a very appealing image. There are some great examples of this online.
Learning about this is something I didn't know I really wanted to do until yesterday; I knew about the process for a long time but have never gotten round to trying it out myself. Turns out it's very straightforward and easy to get the hang of - who knew! That's what happens when you don't try things! Oh well, I have now (not that I had a choice).
I'm going to share a double exposure I was making just now (at home) for the fun of it. I googled 'high contrast portrait' or something and found Al Pacino's familiar face looking standing out of the crowd and decided to use that. As for the other images, they're all from Unsplash and I'm not required to give credit (everything on Unsplash is royalty-free) but I will anyway - at the end of the post somewhere [keep reading!].
Manipulating more than two images is something I attempted even on my first double exposure (at college), but I think this worked a bit better. It's a mash-up of four images - the portrait, a nature photo, a space photo and a grungy texture from Google.
... And here's my double exposure on a theme of Al Pacino and the Universe [liking the title. Might change the blog post name to suit]... Yeah, you're going to have to scroll back up ^
Learning about this is something I didn't know I really wanted to do until yesterday; I knew about the process for a long time but have never gotten round to trying it out myself. Turns out it's very straightforward and easy to get the hang of - who knew! That's what happens when you don't try things! Oh well, I have now (not that I had a choice).
I'm going to share a double exposure I was making just now (at home) for the fun of it. I googled 'high contrast portrait' or something and found Al Pacino's familiar face looking standing out of the crowd and decided to use that. As for the other images, they're all from Unsplash and I'm not required to give credit (everything on Unsplash is royalty-free) but I will anyway - at the end of the post somewhere [keep reading!].
Manipulating more than two images is something I attempted even on my first double exposure (at college), but I think this worked a bit better. It's a mash-up of four images - the portrait, a nature photo, a space photo and a grungy texture from Google.
... And here's my double exposure on a theme of Al Pacino and the Universe [liking the title. Might change the blog post name to suit]... Yeah, you're going to have to scroll back up ^
LINKS: Photo of German countryside; Photo of stars.
NB I'll be sharing more college work later. No time right now. College is going on strike (just kidding, it's half term) for a week tomorrow. Might get some stuff on the blog during that time.
NB I'll be sharing more college work later. No time right now. College is going on strike (just kidding, it's half term) for a week tomorrow. Might get some stuff on the blog during that time.
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