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For the purpose of basic exposure blending, I will show you how to merge two photos. The principles of merging multiple images are the same and it will come with experience. I’ll start from the easiest to the most technical method to combine two photos.
Canon cameras allow you to combine a photo taken the conventional way, with an exposure taken in the multiple exposure mode. To try this, choose the “Select image for multi.expo” option. If you’ve set the total number of exposures to two, you now only have to shoot one extra exposure in multiple exposure mode to complete your composite.
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Multiple exposure photography is a technique that captures two or more exposures of light on the same frame of film or digital media. Combining multiple exposures in this way results in a photo with many translucent images overlaid onto each other. This technique of photography falls into two genres of photography: experimental and impressionism.
Oct 14, 2022 · When more than one exposure is combined into one image, it is called a multiple exposure. In the case of two, it’s a double exposure. Often used in fine art photography to lend the image a surrealist look or to enhance a sense of motion, it’s an unmistakable technique.
- Examples
- How to Blend Exposures in Photoshop Using Apply Image
- Step 1. Find Two Exposures
- Step 2. Layer Those Two Exposures in Photoshop
- Step 3. Placement of Layers
- Step 5. Make The Darker Exposure Invisible
- Step 6. Creating The Mask
- Step 7. Refining The Mask
- Step 8. Final Touches
- Final Words
Before you begin the tutorial, I’d like to show you some examples of my images, before and after exposure blending. In each, you can see the underexposed image which exposes for the brightest parts of the frame, and a brighter image which exposes for the rest of the image.
Your goal in the following steps is to blend two exposures. You have a normal image with overexposed highlights. You also have a darker exposure where those overexposed areas are now nicely exposed. You want to recover those overexposed (clipped) areas in the brighter exposure from the same areas in a darker exposure. This tutorial assumes a few th...
To follow along with this tutorial, please find two exposures, one which is normally exposed, and a darker one which has compensated for any overexposed highlights. If you don’t have any, you can download my exposures from this link: Exposure Blending Example Images
In Photoshop, go to File > Open and locate those two exposures. They will open up in separate windows. To layer them, you just need to go to one of the windows, press Ctrl+A (CMD+A on a Mac), which will select the whole image. Then press Ctrl+C (CMD+C on a Mac) to copy this selection to your clipboard. Now click on the other open window where the o...
In your Layers panel, you will see both of your exposures. Drag the normally exposed image to the bottom, if it isn’t there already. So now the darker exposure should be on top. The reason for doing this is because you are blending the darker exposure into your brighter exposure. So your brighter exposure is acting as the base exposure. The base ex...
Whenever you want to blend a darker exposure into a base (lighter) exposure, it is wise to make the darker exposure invisible before the actual exposure blending process. Explaining why you want to do this goes into slightly more advanced notions of exposure blending, nevertheless, it is important to know.
The method of exposure blending that you are about to use is called Apply Image. In this technique, Photoshop will read the image you see on the big screen in front of you, which should be your base exposure (because the dark exposure is invisible), it will translate that image into greyscale, and then apply it to the mask that you created on the d...
If you toggle the visibility of the darker exposure on and off, you will see that mask you generated has now essentially blended the two exposures. But you may also notice that it doesn’t look great. Most of the base exposure, when you make the darker exposure visible, is being affected. But you just want to affect the highlights. This is happening...
The final step in this basic tutorial is to lower the opacity of the darker exposure. If you are blending a dark sky from a darker exposure, for example, into a normally exposed image, it might look strange. The sky should usually be brighter during the day than foreground elements. In order to make the blend more natural, you may need to select th...
Apply Image is just one of a few superb ways you can naturally blend exposures in Photoshop. If you’re curious to see more, feel free to watch my video, 5 Ways to Blend Exposures below. If you want to learn more about luminosity masking and go to the next level, you might want to check out my course The Art of Digital Blending(only $44.99).
Apr 1, 2024 · Exposure stacking is a technique that allows you to combine multiple exposures into a single image, resulting in dramatically improved image quality. But mastering exposure stacking requires everything from choosing the best gear to getting the exposure right.
Nov 1, 2022 · When making a double exposure, ideally you should halve your exposure setting so that both images together will combine for a well-exposed image without excess under or overexposure. In photography, a stop is the doubling or halving of light coming onto the image plane.
