Street photography tip: Play with double exposures
Thursday 30 January 2025, 20:10 by Michiel Heijmans | 2,540 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Many cameras offer the option to use multiple or double exposures in your photography. This allows you to combine photos in the camera.
It is the effect you used to get with an analogue camera, often unintentionally, if you did not wind your roll of film on properly.
Playing with double exposures is fun with portraits, but also with wide shots. Especially if you stay in one place, it is fairly easy to set or hold your camera at a fixed point and neatly layer two photos over each other. But a tree followed by a block of flats can also create a surprising effect.
If your camera cannot do this itself, there are of course plenty of options for achieving the same effect in Photoshop with a transparent layer!
About the author
Michiel is professioneel straatfotograaf en geeft workshops en lezingen over straatfotografie. Hij schrijft columns voor Focus Magazine en is erg actief op Instagram. Daar vind je dagelijks inspiratie en tips voor je eigen straatfotografie!
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