Selected by Matt Wragg - This is just stunning, and hands-down the best use of an in-camera double exposure I have ever seen. There is no Photoshop trickery here - some current cameras allow to expose a shot twice - and to match two such different shots together so perfectly to create such a stunning effect is incredible and must have take a huge amount of thought to get it this good. Wow.
This shot is super awesome, but the 5D mk2 doesn't feature in-camera multiple exposures, so it must have been assembled in post. I don't think that takes anything away from it at all, it's an incredible image and 'photoshopping' is a valid and important part of the photographic process. Just getting the geek details right...
You're right you can't with the mkII, which is slightly embarrassing for me. I didn't look at the camera model on exif, but this isn't photoshopped as that would have stripped out the exif data... Errr.
If you 'Save As' instead of 'Save For Web' in PS it keeps the EXIF data - images I've uploaded here that have been edited in PS all show the correct information. How it's made is just details though imo, what matters is that it's a kickass image.
Sorry Mat. I didn't mean to make you confused. RIOTT is right as it was assembled in post, in photoshop. And as much as I like the idea to make it straight in camera, I think it wouldn't be possible to have such a transitions with fog around neck and the googles as I intended to. I export images from Lightroom and keeps the EXIF from original photo. Sorry about that. Hope you'll like the picture anyway.
@EwiaProduction Don't get me wrong, I think this is utterly stunning, and it would have been POD regardless - but unless it's done in-camera it's not a "double exposure" in my book (and I can't change my caption at this stage to reflect that).
@RIOTT Glad to see that someone knows about image data and how all Data is saved to the image by hitting save as .This would save the image back into its root catalogue within its original processing application i.e. .Lightroom/Aperture etc etc. This is a sick little photoshop edit never the less.
@mattwragg in my book a double exposure is two photos combined to make one. you're right that it can be done in-camera but are wrong to criticize andrej of not taking a double exposure photo. nicely done andrej
@wayne-dc What? Arbitrary modification of exif headers in jpeg is a matter of seconds... so PB might as well just let the user specify what he wants/thinks/likes the "photo details" to be (including, in this case, a camera model that would support "genuine" double exposure), because exif can't proove anything.
(Not that people usually have a reason to modify it, unless they're John McAfee... but that's another story.)
@jonny-a It matters because it is a fundamentally different, and more impressive, skill to compose like this in-camera - it would take a mind-blowing amount of thought and precision to create an image like this in that manner. With Photoshop you can line up the right shots from a selection, you have time to adjust and re-work get things just right. When I thought this was done in camera I was utterly blown away, this would have been my photo of the year without a doubt and one of the most impressive photos I have ever seen - as it is, it's just very, very good.
I agree with everything you're saying matt but it still is a double exposure. It just seemed a little harsh saying that his photo wasn't a double exposure and made it seem like you were criticizing him of cheating, where photoshop is just another way of making a double exposure. It seems you still think the photo is brilliant which is good - no harm intended.
An in-camera double exposure is absolutely not the same @jonny-a - when it's in-camera you have to get composition and exposure perfect in just two consecutive photos, whereas with Photoshop you can choose to mix and match from any number of shots and also erase unwanted parts of the layers to clean it up. Matt's right - if this was a true double exposure it would be outrageously rad, as it stands it's just plain rad...
@nated9: Although I totally agree with Matt, it's not true that both photos need to be consecutive. They don't. For example in Canon 5D MKIII, you can choose your "base" image and that shoot and try next image as many times as you like.
Anyhow, I agree. It would be super awesome (and imposible for transitions like this ) to achieve this in film camera for example.
It has some of the feeling of a 1970's sci-fi movie poster illustration - the kind of blending and compositing that you see on, oh, Luke Skywalker's lightsaber blending into Darth Vaders helmet, that sort of thing. MORE LIKE THIS