I don’t know about you, but I always find the week following a school holiday is incredibly busy. All sorts of admin tasks and household chores build up while my kids, Helen and Izzy, are at home. Once they’re back at school, I find myself playing catch up.
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Although simple to do, it was quite technical. I considered producing a tutorial but it would make for quite a long read so I shall simply leave you to enjoy the photograph on this occasion! The images I combined, however, can be found below.
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As it’s the first time I’ve used this technique, I’m reasonable happy with the results. There are a couple of things I would like to improve about this image, but I learned quite a lot merging these images so it was worth it for the experience.
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If you look at the photography category of my blog you’ll see I’m getting ever more adventurous with Photoshop. I’m always keen to improve my photo editing skills but I have so much more to learn. It’s great to be learning so much about editing photographs, but as we slide back into the school routine I hope to get out and use my camera more.
If you enjoy photography, you might like to follow this link to the Photalife blog. Darren, who runs the blog, hosts a monthly ‘linky’ where bloggers showcase their photography. It takes place on the last Sunday of the month, is called #MySundayPhoto and I have added this picture to it. It features some great photos and it’s a wonderful online community so is well worth a visit.
12 thoughts on “Creating a double exposure image”
Great image, John. It’s a skill being able to pick two good ones that go together, let alone actually doing it.
Thanks tara. It took a while to find images that worked. Givem more time I am sure I could have done better, but I think you can see what kind of week I’ve had!
It’s a fantastic image you’ve created. (Yep, the first week after the kids go back to school is always full of extra tasks!)
Oh Sarah, first week back, then a normal week, then a Bank Holiday week! I’m gonna have so much catching up to do! Glad you like the pic.
Amazing effect, I made one similar a little while back and had it printed on a t shirt. I think it looks amazing.
Thank you for joining in with #MySundayPhoto
Ah, now that t-shirt I must see. Always good to get some praise from the Mighty Coleshill.
How clever, it looks amazing. I love how you got the skyline going through the head so it looks like it’s vanishing. If you’d have done a tutorial I probably wouldn’t have been able to follow it. I just have difficulty with anything that’s not just a simple snap.
#mysundayphoto
Glad you feel it looks clever! People don’t say that about me very often! It was a fun experiment but if you aren’t use to using Photoshop, any tutorial would be a bit dull, truth be told.
that’s a fantastic photo, I wish i had the patience to learn skills like that #mysundayphoto
Thanks, glad you like it. I am afraid it does take a certain amount of patience as you say!
Great work, John – it makes for a very striking combined image!
Thanks Tim, the intention was to use contrasting images so I am glad you feel it worked.