In recent months I’ve been playing with multiple exposure images, mostly of architecture. A few weeks ago, I went to Rosell Park, just east of Grand Rapids, to do the same with landscape. It’s a very different challenge to make work than architecture. Here are a few of my favorites.
The first is a stand of trees in a small pond (as is the cover image of the blogpost). You can tell what has been photographed, but the image is impressionist enough that it at a quick glance you see lines and shapes more than objects.
The second looks like a pencil sketch of tangled trees along a river. (In this case the Grand River.) It almost doesn’t look like a multiple exposure image.
I shot the last image from the same spot as the one above but moved the camera vertically as I made the image, creating the ghostly lines about the trees. I processed it with a template that emulates a postcard look from the 1970s, and they juiced the contrast a bit, to enhance the ghostly feel of the image. It’s an interesting mix of easily identifiable landscape and a touch of the surreal.
Enjoy!
No Ordinary Light 