How to Shoot Surreal In-Camera Double Exposure Portraits
We’ve featured a few projects recently that combined portraits of people with photos of nature and various objects. While the look can be easily faked in Photoshop, a more satisfying way to shoot this kind of shot is to do the double exposure entirely in-camera.
The basic idea is to shoot a silhouette of your subject with the background blown out, and then a second photo to fill in the underexposed areas. To have the final photo come out properly, you’ll need to step down one stop for each of the two shots.
In addition to the photo shown at the top, here are some other photos that Wong came up with over the course of the tutorial:
Image credits: Photographs by Kai Wong/DigitalRev
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