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Simple double-exposure effects

Simple double-exposure effects - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Simple double-exposure effects

- Hi, I am Sean Duggan. In this week's exploration of cool things you can do with your mobile photography, we're gonna take a look at double exposures or multiple exposures. Now back in the film days, a double exposure could be made intentionally sometimes by not advancing the film. A lot of the cameras had a switch that allowed you to cock the shutter without advancing the film and then you could expose two different scenes on the same frame or film, but if you were using a cheap or plastic camera, maybe a toy camera or some older vintage camera, sometimes on cameras like that you could cock the shutter without having to advance the film and that would result in an accidental double exposure. Now in some cases these accidents of double exposures were just nothing at all, total visual mess and it was nothing, it was something to throw away, but in a lot of cases it looked really cool. There is a whole group of photographers who like to pursue creating double exposures on film, it's…

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