In the last exercise we started the journey into blending two photographs together. This is done either in camera or in software. We explored the various techniques for combining two photographs, whilst trialing various blend modes.

For the next fortnight we will explore this further.

Playing and experimenting, finding the unexpected, is the joy in these techniques.

Work on ideas and looks you like or that you have found.

See if you can create diptychs of two seperate artworks, to make them look like a matching pair of friends. As if they belong to each other. Belonging so much together, that you can no longer imagine them apart.

The goal of this exercise is to repeat techniques to make similar works so you learn more about how these techniques work.

We have a post in our forum for sharing techniques, tutorials, ideas, and our work as it develops. It is a working post. One to comment on, and discuss and help each other.

https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/blend-mode-and-multiple-exposure-resources-and-techniques-12653338?pid=1335304310#post1335304310

I have added a few resources as a starting point.

For our exercise, we can post up to three diptychs.

Post your final three diptychs in this post.

https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/ex177-blending-photographs-12653362?pid=1335304561#post1335304561

We will discuss these in Len’s Class on 27th June 2023 at 9.30 am Sydney time.

These three diptychs were created very close to each other. When I get one I like, I always work on others with the same techniques and settings. This gives me more for diptychs of course, but also reinforces how I did them, and gives me more choices when it comes to publishing them.

These were taken in camera, Olympus EM1 mk2 Tungsten colour temperature, multiple exposure, two exposures, additive blend mode (the only blend mode).