Silly Jug, Silly AC

I am backatcha with the jug of maple syrup again today.

Some time ago, I showed you some of my attempts at double exposures with my dad's bible. But I haven't done much with this technique, and the jug seemed like a good subject for further experimentation.

There will be  a progression in these photos, but this was my first attempt.

To be clear, lest we forget, that is one bottle and one image as it came out of the camera. I have cropped and done my usual tweaks, but the double exposure effect came out of the camera. I tell the camera that I want a double exposure, so it knows what to do. I click the shutter once (the jug on the right), and then I move the camera so that the same just appears to be in a different place (on the left).

I did another one with greater separation between the two jugs – same jug but, as before, it  still looks like two.

OK. so I was sort of getting the hang of how to work a double exposure. Next, I deliberately moved the camera for part two of the photo (left). This is called ICM – Intentional Camera Movement. So, I was doing two tricks in one image – double exposure plus ICM.

I decided that I wanted to play a little more, so I told the camera that I wanted to do a triple exposure. I kept the camera steady on the first click. Then, I shifted the camera and moved it up and down for both of the other exporsures of the image. This ↓ is how it turned out.

Finally (yes, we're getting there) I set the camera up with an even longer exposure so that I could get  more crazy light effects. All of the above photos were 1.6 seconds, but the next and final one was a 2.5 second exposure. To clarify: that's three clicks at 2.5 second each, so a total of 7.5 seconds were required to create the final image..

Wild effect, eh?

Love them of hate them, I had fun.